Re: Boot sector virus - NTFS?
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 09/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:41:05 +0100
Steve Nielsen wrote:
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>Interesting sounding tool, I'll have to check it out. But for the sake
>of quickly fixing the OP's problem would it not be easier to simply use
>FDISK /MBR or FIXMBR?
Not if he has one of the nasty boot viruses I am pretty sure he has.
Those displace the partition table and replace the MBR code with their
own, one part of which allows access to the displaced PT as needed. So
if you FDISK /MBR and restore standard code, this redirection is no
longer possible and the PT is inaccessible. Or if, as in his case, you
move the disk so you no longer boot via the virus's modified code.
You could get the same happen with some of the BIOS extender programs on
disks used with very old BIOSes - eg Ontrack, but that is unlikely these
days
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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