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by phil 1 view

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I have a clients system that had the magistr virus on it and it corrupted a good share of the windows system files. I have looked at the system and told them their best option is to format it and start over from scratch, to be sure that theentire virus is gone. They are fine with that except that all of their backup's are bad and they need to preform another before we format the system. So I have begun to install windows (95) on top of it self to restore it, but it will not take the key. I am positive that this manaul came with this cd. Can anybody help me.
Thanks in Advance

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by phil

Sorry forgot to mention that I hooked up the hard drive to another system and ran Inoculate on it and it restored all of the infected files. The reason that the system will not go into windows is that the client manually deleted the vmm32 folder. how he can do that and not run a good back for the past year is beyond me though.....sigh.....

by tprinzo

Hope this helps.

I would put the HD in another PC and backup or copy the data to that PC, then format and reload from a clean start.

by gary mcp

I had a similar problem once before. Windows stores the CD key in a few different files, when you try to reinstall over itself, it wants the same key as it was installed with.

As the other answer suggests, installing the drive into another machine as a slave drive and using the master to perform the backup is probably your best bet. Or you could install windows to a different directory on it's current machine. That should solve the problem until you're ready to reformat.

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