Re: Danger Wil Robinson Danger!!!!

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Coincidence?

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Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Bacchus wrote:
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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