Re: virus or not?
From: Joseph Scalise (jscalise_at_advantageccs.org)
Date: 02/07/05
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:34:47 -0500
Kelvin,
After reading your post I can't determine whether all 3 of the computers
you talk about in the beginning ALL stop at 13%...? If this is NOT the
case, some of these disks you are trying to fix may be mechanically damaged.
HDD are largly mechanical devices, I have had countless arms go bad in disks
over the years. Listen for any unusual sounds emitting from the drive
during bootup.
As far as it being a virus: Please reply with more specifics as to whether
these computers are related to each other in any way. For instance, you
made mention of this virus being an external problem, does that mean these
computers were hooked up to a network in the shop?
"Kelvin" <Kelvin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F855E45B-5074-4233-92AB-9A16FBE2F12A@microsoft.com...
> My name is Kelvin Harris and I own and run a small internet café and
> computer
> repair shop. Amek Computing & Training Ltd. Wednesbury, West Midlands. UK.
> Over the last 3 days I have had 3 computers to repair all following the
> same
> theme. My customers all report that when the XP logo appears their machine
> restarts. They will not start in safe mode, nor last good. Fat32 or ntfs
> formatting halts at around 13%. After low level formatting the HDD becomes
> unuseable? And subsequent boots report Primary Hard Drive failure. I have
> even tried connecting the HDD to my own system has a slave but again 13%
> seems to be the magical figure. I have tried various HDD drive repair
> programmes inc Maxblast and powermax. Thinking a resident virus may exist
> I
> have cleared the cosmos/bios and tried again! My question is? Is their any
> virus out there that displays these characteristics. During this 3 day
> period
> 2 other computers have been repaired showing no sign of this problem,
> making
> me think it is an external problem to the shop, although I cannot totally
> rule this out. I have had another computer in for repair showing similar
> symptoms. Another common theme seems to be the use of ebay.
>
> I hope you can advise
>
> My e-mail is k.harris@blueyonder.co.uk
>
> Thank you for your time and assistance
>
> Kelvin
>
> --
> KLH
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