Re: hard drive problem

So the sequence was:
1. installed new disk drive
2. months later got a virus
3. was wiped? reformatted? wiping means exactly what? running the write
all 0's to all locations utility? takes many hours?
4. Windows was re installed?
4a which anti virus, anti spyware were installed BEFORE ever going online?
5. message from messenger service saying get some program? did you go to
their website and download something? which website/product name? maybe
this was a trick to upload virus malware to your computer?
6. registry fix? what does this mean?
7. now when you reboot, the operating system is not found? what exact
message appears?
8. install old disk, the new disk as slave appears fine


thats good, what probably happened is your windows install was zapped, most
newer computers will look for a bootable resource and boot it up, since you
didnt say you changed bios settings sounds like windows itself got
corrupted.

steps now are save anything on that new disk, send them to the old disk that
runs windows

do a full wipe, all zeros, format, install windows, install antivirus, etc

set your system not to allow messenger service, it helps to load as much as
possible from cd rom before connecting online, set internet explorer to high
security



"jenn" <jenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:382372EB-447F-497E-9733-A0348B46ED29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
about 6 months ago i installed a new hard drive 160g maxtor,it worked fine
then it was attacked by a virus of some description and it was wiped and
reformatted,in doing so it developed a pop up from messenger service
advising
me to get a regedit/program.these pop ups were happening every minute or
so.i
did a regestry fix however it is not recognised on reboot.the strange
thing
is it can be recognised as a slave when replaced with my old hard drive.
any help would be appreciated
thank you


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