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MBR virus...I think

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by it

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I have attempted to install a programme called "goback"(System reverter).When I reboot PC it makes a terrible HDD noise and tells me I have a Master boot record virus.I disabled all anti virus software and rebooted with floppy disk to command promptwhere I typed "FDISK /MBR".I didnt notice anything special happen but on reboot I get this error message and cannot even see the C:\ in dos screen.
"Verifying DMI pool data.Starting Win98"
"Type name of the command interpreter (eg:C:\windows\command.com)"Then the next line is A:>.
If I attempt to type above i get nothing so try to type C:\+ enter.No joy so C:\dir.Still nothing except invalid directory.Any help appreciated.Cheers

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by dmccull2000

There are several things that you can do at this point. 1st of all go into you BIOS and make sure that it still sees the physical drive. If it does not, then try reinstalling the drive.

If you see the drive in your BIOS, then creat aboot disk off another computer. Add fdisk to this disk and just run fdisk. Look to see if you have any partitions on this drive.if there is none then you lost everything. Recreate a partition, format it, and reinstall. If it was a virus most likely this is what you are going to have to do, because it ate your boot sector.

If you have another computer, and partition magic, then slave your drive to the other computer. There are some good tools that may be able to be of some service to recover your data.

If there is no drive in your BIOS, then most likely you have a bad hard drive and it is time to replace it.

Hope this helps

by electricdragon

Hello,
If you have'nt tried answer num-1 yet,try this first, remove the cover, then listen to your hard drive after you push the power button, see if it trys to spin up, and then powers back down (to no sound from drive) this is common when the spindle motor starts to die, and most make a good racket when trying to star when this is the case.
if it does power down, you will need a new drive, if it stays spinning, follow advice in answer num-1.
you can disregard answer num-2 since you did not"disable" the master boot record, you simply replaced it, and since that did not work, I suspect your drive.
Good luck
Loren

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