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parse27 · Post by **parse27** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 6:58 pm

hi guys,

i dunno where to put this thread, i dunno if it's in the right place. i have a friend who asked me to remove a virus from his disk. turns out to be on the partition table.

if i slave the disk to another uninfected computer to scan it, might the virus be transferred to the computer i slaved it to?

thanks in advance..

parse

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:20 pm

Most anti virus programs have you make a recovery disk.
Tell your friend to use the one he made.
If he didn't make one, well, nevermind.

To your question..It won't affect your HD if you boot into your HD. Just make sure your BIOS isn't set to boot into HIS HD when you slave it.

Depending on his OS, you may be able to fix it with fdisk /mbr (98 - ME)
or fixmbr from recov console (Win2K-XP) using a bootable disk (not from booting to the HD) either CD or floppy while the drive is still in HIS computer.

If you make a mistake, he could lose all data on the drive.
If the data is not important, just remove all partitions, recreate them and format.

Norm · Post by **Norm** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:28 pm

Have a read over here http://www.datarescue.com/laboratory/partition.htm
and increase your knowledge while your at it.

You might want to clear CMOS as well. Just to be on the safe side

Also, if the virus protection was enabled in the BIOS to begin with, then the bootsector could not have been written to. Something to consider when you're done fixing it.

parse27 · Post by **parse27** » Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:42 am

thanks norm..your wide and profound knowledge never fails to amaze me.

thanks for the link too..