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mbr rebuild
Name: homer Date: February 15, 2003 at 23:31:53 Pacific OS: win98 CPU/Ram: duron 800 64 MB
Comment:
I was suspicious of a virus in my boot sector so I used 'fdisk /mbr'. While the machine is rebuilding the mbr, I get a flashing message that says "Boot Sector Write!! VIRUS:Continue (Y/N)". If I say Yes and then try it again, I get the same message. It just saying that b/c the mbr is being written to and it 'thinks' its a virus? I ran it through 3 different virus scanners and none of them picked up a boot sector virus. Thank you for any thoughts.
Name: smithdk Date: February 15, 2003 at 23:40:41 Pacific
Reply:
Could be that your anti-virus is enabled in your BIOS which would get you that message.
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Response Number 2
Name: Kailas Date: February 16, 2003 at 00:03:50 Pacific
Reply:
YES! most definately, 'boot sector write warning' is enabled in the BIOS. If the updated virus scanners are not detecting any virus...good...relax! anyway, just to be sure...go to dos prompt and type: mem if the conventional memory is exactly equal to 640k, relax...u dont have a TSR virus... during a OS reinstall you can just disable the waring option to avoid the irritation.
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Response Number 3
Name: homer Date: February 16, 2003 at 08:04:30 Pacific
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Yes, thank you. That fixed it up. Thanks alot for your help!
Summary: Fdisk/mbr rebuilds your master boot record. Since it is done from a boot disk it doesn't rely on your system. Simply boot with the disk and at the A:> type in fdisk/mbr. Then reboot without the disk. ...
Summary: Try Start | Shut Down | Restart in MS-DOS Mode. Then at the DOS prompt, type "fdisk /mbr", without the quote marks, of course. This is an undocumented switch in fdisk that will rebuild your MBR, or ...
Summary: Just moving it up. . . Don, I'd like to hear your input. and anyone else's, of course. thanks. Response Number 7 Name: DonW Date: August 11, 2002 at 19:15:47 Pacific Subject: FDISK /MBR Reply: eri...
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