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um yea
 Post subject: Virus
PostPosted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:09 pm 
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My computer took a :facepalm: i thought the disk went so i booted er up into dos and testdisk when i tried to format the drive i got a msg that poped up and said something like BOOT VIRUS... and testdisk froze what should i do :?

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 Post subject: Re: Virus
PostPosted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:26 pm 
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:facepalm: What?

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 Post subject: Re: Virus
PostPosted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:27 pm 
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:facepalm: = insert explicative term here
or S***

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 Post subject: Re: Virus
PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:36 am 
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Most viruses nowadays don't touch the boot sector, so unless you are grabbing softwares off floppies, the harddisk suffered an error that damaged the harddisk's boot sector and the error is your BIOS trying to stop the OS/testdisk from repairing the error. Look for an option in the BIOS for 'virus protection' or 'boot sector locking' and turn it off.

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 Post subject: Re: Virus
PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:04 pm 
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ok, i did that and got the disk to format, but now i can't get XP, Vista, or Linux to install, or even run live CD i think i am going to flash bios and see if that helps

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 Post subject: Re: Virus
PostPosted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:52 pm 
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bios flashed, didn't help, any other ideas

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Do you have the boot order in the BIOS correct? You need to make sure the CD drive is at the top of the list (or at least above the hard drive).

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 Post subject: Re: Virus
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yea the boot order is right, when windows finishes loading it gives me the blue screen of death and Linux freezes when it tries to load

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You should have PMed him about his sig instead of posting a reply to an old thread. In base 2 (AKA binary) one-zero (10) is two.
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 Post subject: Re: Virus
PostPosted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:17 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Virus
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i need more than just a link, i am still a bit of a noob at this

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You should have PMed him about his sig instead of posting a reply to an old thread. In base 2 (AKA binary) one-zero (10) is two.
Binary is as easy as 1 10 11!

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Completely unplug your hard drive and try booting off a live CD.

Maybe your RAM went bad?

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um yea wrote:
yea the boot order is right, when windows finishes loading it gives me the blue screen of death and Linux freezes when it tries to load

Sounds like when a computer is having RAM read/write issues. Either your RAM somehow got corrupted in the process or you need to mess with your settings.

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 Post subject: Re: Virus
PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:24 am 
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what are your PC's specs? and how long have you had each component?

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removed ram and reinstalled ram and it works now :wtf: :D

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Binary is as easy as 1 10 11!

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Woohoo!

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