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Thanks for all your responses. I just created a Startup disk on this old
Win95 laptop that I have and when I run it, it doesn't see the C: drive
either. hmmmm. I think that this could be explained by the aftermarket IDE
card that I have. I'll remove that tonight and try again.
Can Norton Ghost actually restore your boot partition?
Jim Bronke
Phoenix, AZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivo Karindi" <ivo@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Jim Bronke'" <jvbronke@xxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 3:02 AM
Subject: RE: wipe C on Win2000?
: Yes, normally you can not erase the OS partition from the OS. A solution
: might be to do it from DOS. If you could find a floppy that lets your
: computer to boot up from the floppy, and includes some essential functions
: like HD formatting, that could solve the problem. Sometimes computer
: manufacturers provide such disks. I have one for a Gateway Pentium II
: computer, not sure if it will work for you (I could zip the floppy
contents
: and e-mail), but worth a try if you can not find anything else. I have
used
: the floppy on several occasions on 2 different computers (the Gateway and
a
: Micron) for completely wiping out the HD.
:
: For the future, I recomend Drive Image, Ghost, or equivalent. Just
avoiding
: one such complete computer/software rebuilding process will in my opinion
: pay for the price of the program.
:
: Ivo
:
:
: > -----Original Message-----
: > From: Jim Bronke [mailto:jvbronke@xxxxxxxx]
: > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:58 AM
: > To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
: > Subject: wipe C on Win2000?
: >
: >
: > I got Nimda a couple of weeks ago and I am running on my
: > backup computer
: > while trying to get this mess on Win2000 straightened out.
: > Although Norton
: > cleaned the virus out of my hard drive in every file except
: > the boot record
: > of my hard drive. Win 2000 won't let me erase the hard drive!
: > Even when
: > using their poorly made boot disks that you can create using
: > the Win 2000
: > installation CD. These boot disks bring up my computer in a
: > mode where it
: > won't see the hard drives. The instructions with Norton AV is
: > Win2000 has an
: > advanced operating system and boot disks are not needed. Huh?
: > Anyone got any ideas on how to delete the hard drive. I even
: > tried to make
: > some Win98 disks on my Win 98 system. It hangs.
: >
: > Jim Bronke
: > Phoenix, AZ
: >
: >
: >
: >
: >
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