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Can a virus remove the partition?

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by wizardj May 21, 2004 last reply May 29, 2004

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Windows 98 SE computer was working yesterday, but had some files that Spybot couldn't remove (GMT\Banners\4401.6\) untypeable gibberish in directories under the 4401.6 so I couldn't boot to command prompt and manually delete the cr*p. Stupid Gator stuff, I hate it! But now this morning, no C: drive, boot to diskette, fdisk says no partitions defined. ARGHH! What next? any hints?

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by dmiles May 22, 2004

The virus more or less has gotten to boot partition and removed the MBR,you will need to run the anti-virus software to detect and remove virus using command prompt
You will then need to create a new Win 98 startup disk,because the first one has the virus files on it

The only other option will be to fdisk the system and do a fresh install,try to backup any files that you can for the drive

by wizardj May 29, 2004

already formatted and re-installed everything - so great minds think alike!

by compserv May 25, 2004

Yes there is a virus i can't remember the
name though that but we had one come in to
the shop that i work at and all you can do is
format the drive and start over

by wizardj May 29, 2004

by cglrcng9 May 26, 2004

Go to; www.grc.com Then find the freeware downloads files, look for Fix-CIH but do some reading there concerning the CIH Virus and how to use the file to fix it. He has a full history about the virus and his fix.

I have used the fix and it works.