The BIOS got overwritten, All partitions got corrupted i.e. got deleted, HDD
never got formatted again etc etc. I was a newbie in the field of computers and
could not find any genious around to help me out and AFAIK my assembler/Vendor
cheated me. What could I do at that time except to give him Rs.2300 /- more and
get a replacement.
Boo Hoo Hoo
Suraj Kumar
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Chatterjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] modem speed
> By the way how did cih physically trash your hard disk ?
> CAn it actually do this ? I thought that some viruses can flash your
> mobo bios, but how do you destry a harddisk before its mtbf in software
> ?
> I'm sure there Is something wrong in this statement.
> Cheerio
> Robin
>
>
> Suraj Kumar wrote:
> >
> > With all Due Respect,
> > I have posted this para a million times in LIH that,
> >
> > "I have Altered my system date to an older date because I have an internal
> > Creative modem (read Costly) which I have not been able to configure or make
it
> > work under Linux because it simply does not respond to the Modem Query at
port
> > /dev/ttyS3 (COM 4) hence I am forced to use $doze for Internet Surfing and
mail
> > management and I have already suffered a loss of Rs.5000/- way back in
1998(26
> > April,1998 to be precise) when my PC was hit by Win.CIH Virus and my 4.3 GB
HDD
> > had to be thrown out in the Garbage(including the data if it was still there
on
> > it). So I now give myself a "room" of about 2-years by changing my system
date."
> > Suraj Kumar
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rohit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 9:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: [LIH] modem speed
> >
> > > Suraj Kumar wrote:
> > >
> > > Before you write anything, my dear Suraj, correct your
> > > system date. It is showing some time in 1998. If you
> > > are 'back to the future', I urge you to go back. You
> > > are way ahead of your time.
> > >
> > > Rohit
> > >
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