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Hi Poppy~

I am back!............I live in England, and think that I am some 5-6 hours behind you? you must live somewhere to the East?

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Please run the first...

Hi Poppy~

1. Are you running this on your WinXP computer, or on the original PC?
2. Autoclean: Automatic clean the infected/suspicious files.
Inside archives: Scan for malwares inside archives....

HI Poppy~

Thank you for the update..............run Trend Micro "Housecall" it is a very good up to the minute online AV scanner.

Once again, please accept my appologies for the amount of time...

Hi Poppy~

It is Sunday here and I have to go out................other boot sectors huh?, yes that does sound familiar...............I will get back to you today, but later.

Hey, I think that we...

Hi Poppy~

Can you get hold of a WIN98 boot disk? You need to boot into DOS.

Then at the A:> prompt type in
fix-cih /bootroot
Please note the space before the /

That is if it does not work...

OK Poppy~

I will have to find a few tools for you. I am rather busy for the next few hours so please be patient!

I have a few questions:

1. How big is the drive that does not work?
2. How...

Poppy~

Yes, that is what I was trying to suggest...............the CIH virus can attack both BIOS and hard drive, so clean the drive on another machine first.

That will tell you if your BIOS...

Hi Lansing~

This is damage caused by the CIH/HIV virus. It scrambles the first meg of the HDD. There are a variety of free tools to fix this problem from Gibson Research & all the major AV...

Hi Poppy~

I looks like you have two issues here? The first thing to do is to download the CIH virus recovery tool from the GRC site you mentioned and repair the FAT32 partition. You can do this on...

Hi there Poppy,

Have a look at the Semantec (Norton) And Network Associates (McAfee) sites for removal/repair tools for the virus.

Get the installation and diagnosis tools from the hard drive...