HDD: Hard Drive Dilema

From: DigitalBIOS (DigitalBIOS_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:21:02 -0800

     Hello anyone, first of all...sorry for the long message....this is
really serious stuff to me.
>From time to time, I do some pc fixing, whether it be on my pc or someone
elses. I always finish the job with a satisfactory....not this time. I
haven't given a diagnosis yet. Here's a detailed explaination to what's
happening:

1. I turn the pc on..so far so good....finishes searching for installed
HDD(s) and/or CD-Roms.
2. As you all know the next step should be this one: a black background
screen presenting (in this case WinXP) the XP logo and a blue "loading OS"
indicator at the bottom. I hope you understand.
3. Well, it never gets to that second step. I immediately know it's
serious. The pc reboots by itself and the cycle restarts all over, again and
again and again.

I took the hard drive out from its place and placed it as a secondary drive
on another pc to run antivirus software (TrendMicro PC-cillin Internet
Security 2005). I found more than 300 trojans and worms....some were
repeated, including the known sasser virus. I thought that did the trick,
but I was very very skeptical towards the matter prior to booting up with the
sick hard drive. I was right...no signs of getting better were apparent. So
I have come to isolate the problem to the boot sector of the hard
drive...worm?.... messed up sector?... I cant really know for sure. Im
cornered beacuse I am forcing myself not to use formatting. Its too early for
that.
                                     ANY HELP ANYONE?

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