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boot sector virus, can't install OS
Name: Novaa Date: November 22, 2002 at 18:48:56 Pacific OS: win98 CPU/Ram: 1.7ghz / 256MB
Comment:
This is not a request for help! I just wanted to post an alternate solution to a known problem. I had a problem with a boot sector virus warning message that prevented me installing WIN98 on a newly formatted hard drive. In previous posts the solution to this problem was given as "disable the BIOS virus protection". For my particular BIOS I was not able to do this - there was no setting for it. After much searching I found another workaround that involved installing Win98 without writing to the boot sector & then transferring system files after install.
The command to do this is setup /ir
Here's the URL for details of the full solution: http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/virwarn.htm
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