I got a boot sector virus

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Manolo

New Member
Please, help me, what should I do?
I booted with another drive and the disk with the virus won´t show (where it shows the har drives, cd drives, floopy drives, control panel...)
HELP!
PS: I have windows 98
 
Praetor

Praetor

Administrator
Staff member
Did you try cleaning it??? Short of that you're gonna have to toast the bootsector to get rid of it.
 
M

Manolo

New Member
The hard drive is only shown when the pc is just on (before booting) where it shows the drives, processor, RAM.... and with Disk Manager. Right now I'm with another hard drive, but I booted up with this with the "virused" drive connected and it wouldn't show up (once the pc has booted)
 
M

Manolo

New Member
Well... Actually I cannot, since I cannot boot from the drive with the virus and if I boot with another hard drive, the one with virus won't show up, so I guess I cannot clean it... Unless I had a bootable antivirus cd, wich I don't have...
 
Christopher

Christopher

VIP Member
You can just format the MBR. Get an old windows bootdisk to get to the command prompt and just fdisk /mbr

This will loose any dual-boot setups you have, if any.
 
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