Run your anti-virus through it. You should have a anti-virus emergency disk
Then boot from a Windoze 98 disk either a start up or in another machine,
then repair it. If you do not have one of those disks, tell me and I can
email it you. In fact any AV disk not less that 5 yrs old will do. It is an
old Virus
If you reformat the hard drive the virus will still be there and you will
still have it .
WWW.mcafee.com allow you to download a trial version,
Lots of love Jill
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----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 23 June 2000 21:35
Subject: Reconstructing partion table
> Ok, this is a windows 98 problem, but I think there may be a linux
solution. The boot record of one of our win98 has been trashed. When we
boot from a floppy and run fdisk, it shows up as NON-DOS. I suspect that
this was done by a lab mate in an attempt to remove the antiexe.a virus.
> What I am hoping, is that restoring necessary information to the
partion table will get us access to the drive. This kind of low level
tinkering seems to be something I could do in linux. So here is the
question. If I move the HD to my linux box (which I invoke gloatingly
whenever these virus problems occur) is there a set of commands that would
let me look at and change the information in the drives partition table and
regain access to the partition? At best I could restore the drive to
bootable status. It would be almost as good for me to be able to just get
the drive to mount under linux. Then I could get the essential data files
off it before I put it back in the old system to reformat and reinstall.
>
> I this possible, or is my imagination getting the better of me?
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
>
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