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Gargamel 09-20-2003 04:37 AM

I'm looking for help.... Got a serious boot Problem
 
Hello all

I got this nasty virus that deleted 3 system files such that starting win XP was impossible, so i formated ly two hard drives and rebooted... The problem is that i don't even reach a dos command prompt... the BIOS setups itself fine that nothing... Nada

I'm really in the ditch now...

Jason425 09-20-2003 10:02 AM

boot sectorvirus..? do fdisk.. wipe the partitions.. or maybe even low level format.. not sure exactely, never got one of those before

vee_ess 09-21-2003 07:59 PM

Well as long as your BIOS is fine then you can recover. All it affected was your hard drive's data. Make a floppy boot disk from downloads from www.bootdisk.com; I'd suggest a ME and maybe even a 98 boot disk and suggest against a 2000 or XP boot disk. Go into your BIOS and set the boot order to boot to floppy first. That should take you to DOS prompt. If you want to boot off of a CD, make a bootable CD and use the files you'd be putting on the floppy.


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