what instead of fixboot

[Guest j_slobo@hotmail.com]

probably due to virus affecting boot sector as well, win98 disk wont

boot or even be accesed when in another win XP PC any more although

it can be seen in bios.

Read a post saying fixboot can change fat type and screw up file

system if virus had changed the fat signature the fixboot relies on so

which tool would you suggest at least to fix the boot sector

temporarily (to try some other antivirus)?

I found avboot from win2k cd but it is not updated by ca.com any more

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/core/fnhb_trb_cwsz.mspx?mfr=true

and http://invircible.com/iv_tools.php#Ivinit

but it seems it has to run off the sick disk which might not be

possible

Do you think it is safe to try it from boot floppy which is its

suggested method for cleaning nt/xp mbr?

[Guest Mike Easter]

Re: what instead of fixboot

 

j_slobo@hotmail.com wrote:

> http://invircible.com/iv_tools.php#Ivinit

> Do you think it is safe to try it from boot floppy which is its

> suggested method for cleaning nt/xp mbr?

 

The invircible site has a little 37k dos app and access to a freedos

floppymaker.

 

vinit.exe 36.2 KiB

http://invircible.com/iv_tools.php#FreeDOS The FreeDOS utility offered

will create a boot disk, with FreeDOS system files,

 

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[Guest Pennywise@DerryMaine.Gov]

Re: what instead of fixboot

 

"j_slobo@hotmail.com" <j_slobo@hotmail.com> wrote:

>probably due to virus affecting boot sector as well, win98 disk wont

>boot or even be accesed when in another win XP PC any more although

>it can be seen in bios.

>Read a post saying fixboot can change fat type and screw up file

>system if virus had changed the fat signature the fixboot relies on so

>which tool would you suggest at least to fix the boot sector

>temporarily (to try some other antivirus)?

>I found avboot from win2k cd but it is not updated by ca.com any more

>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/core/fnhb_trb_cwsz.mspx?mfr=true

>and http://invircible.com/iv_tools.php#Ivinit

>but it seems it has to run off the sick disk which might not be

>possible

>Do you think it is safe to try it from boot floppy which is its

>suggested method for cleaning nt/xp mbr?

 

Fix boot ain't going to do it, you need to run fdisk on it like:

FDISK /MBR

run that from your Win98 boot disk.

 

Running FDISK will show if your disk is even accessible.

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[Guest Kris]

Re: what instead of fixboot

 

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:15:05 -0700 (PDT), j_slobo@hotmail.com wrote:

> probably due to virus affecting boot sector as well, win98 disk wont

> boot or even be accesed when in another win XP PC any more although

> it can be seen in bios.

> Read a post saying fixboot can change fat type and screw up file

> system if virus had changed the fat signature the fixboot relies on so

> which tool would you suggest at least to fix the boot sector

> temporarily (to try some other antivirus)?

> I found avboot from win2k cd but it is not updated by ca.com any more

> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/core/fnhb_trb_cwsz.mspx?mfr=true

> and http://invircible.com/iv_tools.php#Ivinit

> but it seems it has to run off the sick disk which might not be

> possible

> Do you think it is safe to try it from boot floppy which is its

> suggested method for cleaning nt/xp mbr?

 

boot from either XP slipstreamed CD or "gold" XP CD into recovery console

and do fixboot. If you have to multiboot temporarily I would use OSL2000

to access whichever opsys. grub or lilo can also be used, though if they

stop playing nice with XP, go back and do a FIXBOOT.

 

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