Re: Virus?

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 12/16/03


Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:49:41 -0500

Sounds like you have a BAD hard disk. They often do fail and not everything can be blamed
on viruses.

What is the OS ? When you can get it to boot from a floppy can you move over to "C:" ?

Dave

"Mjordan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:028b01c3c3b8$37009650$a001280a@phx.gbl...
| I think I may have gotten a virus from the internet. Now
| when I try to start my computer, it tells me "Operating
| System Not Found". And it won't boot up. I can get it to
| boot from a boot disk I have and runin DOS but don't know
| what to do from there. PLEASE someone HELP! Is there a
| virus program I can run from DOS to find the virus and
| repair whatever is damaged?



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