Boot Virus?

[Guest]

What virus will keep you from formating or fdisking a HD? If I configure it as a slave , I can see and open the files and aps. But won't boot and won't fdisk or format? What IS this thing? And PLEASE, how do I get rid of it. EZ Anti-Virus didn't see it.

 

[zenroth]

Make a bootdisk with a copy of debug on it, then execute debug and enter the following commands followed by enter after each command.

F200 L200 0
A 100
MOV AX,301
MOV BX,200
MOV CX,1
MOV DX,0080
INT 13
INT 3
THEN PRESS ENTER WITH OUT TYPING ANYTHING
-D 100 LF
PRESS ENTER AGAIN
G=100
Q

That should clear both the boot record and wipe the partition table, you should be able to restart and then Fdisk/Format.

Hope that helps

 

[Guest]

zenroth, thanks. Tried the debug code. It took, but didn't work. Both SCSI drives have this thing. I had an unplugged IDE drive I hook up once a week to mirror and that saved my ass.
FDISK read drive 1 = 96 megs
drive 2 = 17532 megs
fdisk says there is no partition. Can't fdisk or format.
Tried IBM's Disk Manager and ZAP, neither worked. What IS this thing and do you have another suggestion?

Mike