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by trash_can101

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I have an AMD-800 Processor on a Giga-byte GA-7ZX mother board running Windows ME. I also have a CD-Rom, CDRW, 1.44 floppy, and a 2.88 floppy. All work great under Windows system, but it will not read my floppy drives to be able to use a boot disk at all.
In dos mode when I was running 98se it would say, drive not ready unable to read drive. And when I try to get it to accept a boot disk, it says, invalid system disk.
My system worked great before but it was attacked by a worm virus. I have since gotten rid of the virus but ever since then I have had this problem with the floppy drives.
Any kind of advice would be greatly appreciated, I've tried different floppy drives, ribbons, and different boot disks that work great in other computers but all do the same thing in mine.
I can be contacted by phone at(250)770-2854
or by E-mail at Trash_can101@hotmail.com

Thank You

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by bohicam1

Here is a suggestion....try putting the hard drive into another machine that is similar in hardware. See if it behaves the same, if not, then I would think it is a motherboard issue, if it is the same problem, you might not have totally gotten rid of the worm. It could be hiding in your master boot record where virus programs usually cannot get to it. If that is the case, I would recommend a low level format of the hard drive using JTSCAN or HD_KILL. Since these two utils are usually found on floppys, you may have to burn them onto cdrom and boot from that.
Good luck!

Mike

by dmiles

If the virus is not in memory and still infecting non-infected disk
Open the CMOS control panel,then look where the boot process is listed and choose to boot from the a:drive first
ex.a,c,cdrom
Now see if you can boot from the start-up disk,aftersave changes and exit.

by trash_can101

Set Cmos Settings to boot a, cdrom. Made fresh boot disks and tested in other machines and they work no problem. Only in mine they come up as invalid system disks. Thanks any how.

by tchoukavine

Check in CMOS settings of a: and b: in disk settinngs then check the FDD controller to be enable in peripherials settings.

by trash_can101

Cmos settings are correct, and it detects both a and b floppies, but will not read any information from them. Says drive not ready. Thanks any how.

by vertex

Only two things to do. Flash the CMOS and if that didn't help, guess it's time to change the M/B...if worm is the cause of it.

by rajaragavan k

I feel that you are still not removed the worm frm your pc. So try going to www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/ you can see a searchable virus encyclopedia. In that search for the worm and see what cleaning steps they specified. Try that. There isa facility in that to scan your system online you can use that to scan your pc online it my take a 20min time at 56k modem first to diagnose your drive and another 10-15min to scan and clean the viruses. For online scanning go to housecall.antivirus.com

Hope this helps to you

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