Re: Do I have a virus?
On 29 Oct 1999, Martyn Pearce wrote:
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> | > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah,
> | > that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's
> | > tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal
> | > win98 life:
> | >
> | > 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and c:\windows\command
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> Curious that fdisk didn't do it. Might be worth checking the BIOS
> settings --- some M/Bs have a "virus protection" mechanism that, when
> enabled, prevents anything writing to the first sector of the hard disk.
Nope, I've had the same problem. Can it be that lilo changes something in the
bootable partition and not only in the mbr? In that case fdisk /mbr won't be able
to help.
Nico
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> Mx.
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