Summary: I have an older computer and I got a boot sector virus so I formated the hard drive using my bro's gateway dirver cd. When that was finished I went ...
Summary: I have a Wester digital 2.1GB HD I intall dr-dos but when I try to intall Win98 a message display: boot sector Write!! virus:continue (y/n) same is ...
Summary: I had Win98 report that I had a boot sector virus. The same day Win98 reported that a problem with my hard drives was causing them to run in DOS comp...
Summary: Shannon, you may have 'infected' your boot disk (and others!), which would pass the virus back to the new boot sector on your hard drive. If so, y...
Summary: I had an older computer that I believe this happened to, and was told as much by an ibm tech. After all the older machines used a disc to modify the ...
Summary: Where can I find a FREE program to repair a boot sector on one of the partitions of my hard drive? Drive info FAT16 Partiton Table - Not Found Boot Se...
Summary: This sounds alot like a Stealth C, (a Boot Sector Virus). If all of the hardware issues has been resolved look into this as your possibility ?...
Summary: Hello, I saw a hard disk yesterday and it have a problem, I tried a few things but nothing worked on it, actualy it works ok, but when you restart ...
Summary: At system startup, the boot sector is loaded from the HD to the conventional memory. If there's virus in the boot sector, which will be hard to detect...
Summary: I managed to hose the boot sector of my extended partitions d, e & f. While moving files from on to the other and resizing I noticed after a particul...
Summary: I got an old computer from gov't, used there erase disk then... comes up with no boot sector on harddisk. the whole screen reads as follows: Phoenix B...
Summary: Hi .. I have a question that I cannot answer. I have the three DOS disks in three different folders on my hard drive. If I copy disk1 to a blank flopp...
Summary: I would install the drives as slaves in a machine which has an Anti-Virus program on it (on the master, of course). The AV software should recognize t...
Summary: Format does not efect the boot sector or use this switch. This excerpt is from the KB: Microsoft Windows 98 SUMMARY The MS-DOS Fdisk utility usually...
Summary: Hi, I have been following a thread in Usenet alt.biniaries.warez.ibm-pc.old regarding the use of winimage and it's effect on changing boot sectors on ...
Summary: It is pretty amazing. I am wondering if maybe in your haste to find disks to boot LINUX with you dug out an old floppy with an infected boot sector an...
Summary: I don't know details about this particular virus but formatting will not get rid of a boot sector virus. You need to scan all your floppies and the ha...
Summary: Sounds to me like you need to backup a bit. Remove the hard drive from the system, and see if the floppy disk will work. If there is a short in this...
Summary: Becky, an image file is what you need. Once downloaded, double click on the image file, and the boot files will be extracted to a new floppy. Use a ne...
Summary: I have a compuadd 286 which I got recently that was running DOS5 just fine. It had a boot sector virus on it which I attempted to get rid of a few tim...
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