Preserved Topic: Requiem for a PC (Page 1 of 1)

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Wow, bummer...what happened? Is it possible to 'save' the data? *Shudders at the thought of losing everything*

Man, that's...terrible...

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
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Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

InI: Thanks for letting us know (just got your email on this too) - fingers crossed for a quick solution

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The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

Sounds like a boot sector virus. Haven't heard anything about those since the DOS days, but they were definitely killers. The plague of the PC world. I once saw the boot sector of a 2 Gig drive get overwritten with a floppy disk boot sector so that, as far as the booting OS was concerned, there was only 1.44 megs of free space on the drive.

Scary stuff.

it is unlikely that a boot virus from InI's hd f** up his friend's system, unless they booted it off of InI's hd, which i think is highly unlikely

good luck to you InI. hope to see you back in action soon.
you're an inspiration to us all. keep smiling it could've been worse

You don't have to boot off of the drive for the virus to find it's way to the boot sector. It can propagate during the POST to the drives on the IDE channel.

But I agree, it's unlikely that it's one of those since those haven't been around for a while.

hmmm. boot sector viruses reside in boot sectors and/or mbrs. the ONLY way for ANY virus to propagate is to get executed. the only way boot sector viruses get executed happens when you boot a system off of an infected hd/floppy. during post one and only one partition is choosen to boot from. unless they've booted it off of InI's hd, i don't see any way for that virus to find its way to the new system.

i know this from experience. this is my opinion. if you know of a virus that spreads without getting executed, please let me know.

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.