Boot sector virus - NTFS?

[Guest]

I believe I have a boot sector virus; both HD's were installed on PC, PC
crashed and would not re-boot. When I tried to re-install XP pro on the main
HD I got "windows has detected a fault and has shut down" reports ends with
0x0000007b etc. This also happened when I tried to install XP on the other
drive.

I installed XP on a clean drive without any problems until I set one of the
original drives up as a slave - this made the clean HD unbootable.

McAfee told me that you cannot get a boot sector virus on a disk formatted
to NTFS, if this is true, what's the problem?

Any help would be very gratefully received.

David Brigden

 

[sgopus]

Verify your jumpers are set correctly for the use of the
HD's, if you leave them set up as masters and the primary
HD (set as master) is still in the machine, you will not
be able to boot, and you will also cause file structure
problems on both hd's set as master.

Set one HD as master, (one only)! I suggest this, use a
boot floppy and format as FAT32 if possible, if already
formatted as NTFS did you activate the primary Partition?
also if NTFS you need NTDOS to read the File structure
in DOS

 

[Guest]

Both HD's were set up correctly, they had been running in the PC, without
trouble, for about 10 months. Is it significant that I had just installed SP2?

Verify your jumpers are set correctly for the use of the
HD's, if you leave them set up as masters and the primary
HD (set as master) is still in the machine, you will not
be able to boot, and you will also cause file structure
problems on both hd's set as master.

Set one HD as master, (one only)! I suggest this, use a
boot floppy and format as FAT32 if possible, if already
formatted as NTFS did you activate the primary Partition?
also if NTFS you need NTDOS to read the File structure
in DOS

 

[sgopus]

a boot sector virus would not have that effect if the
drive was set up as slave, only master.
The only reason this type of thing can happen is a conflict
with another drive, or a failure within the drive itself
it does happen, that even brand new HD's can fail just out
of the box.

-----Original Message-----
Both HD's were set up correctly, they had been running in the PC, without
trouble, for about 10 months. Is it significant that I had just installed SP2?