Danger Wil Robinson Danger!!!!

Ok

here is the story. A customer of mine called about his windows rebooting
over and over just as the windows splash screen with the Kit car gif
appears. I thought it was a corrupted registry.

I attempted a repair from his windows disc. It doesn't see his old copy of
windows XP. I didn't want to blow off his hard drive as naturally, he has
no backups of anything, dud. I did a boot with the option no reboot after
startup failure, Got a UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

Looked like a virus destoryed his boot sector. Pulled his hard drive and
put in a test system, ran two virus checkers, NO VIRUS. Ran a hard drive
check, hard drive is perfect no problems.

Saw all his files, hard drive looked normal enough and should have backed
everything up right there, but everything was running fine.

Rebooted and now my test system is doing the same EXACT THING. I though
well, I would format the drive and reinstall xp. As soon as the cd gets to
the options to install windows, the system SHUTS DOWN.

Ok, pulled another hard drive off the shelf and it does the same thing. It
would not boot windows even though it was orginally installed on this
machine and it has had no contact with the infected hard drive. Tried to
reinstall XP on it, SAME THING. The system shuts down as soon as the
option to install, repair or quit.

I have no idea now! Could there be something out there that is killing
hardware. I am now reintalling one of the hard drives on another machine
which has not been injected. It is taking the install but don't know what
to expect once it finished.

What is this crap? Anyone got any ideas?

Bacchus
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