Mark;

 I found out after the post that I had a MBR
virus (ripper) lotsa fun. I contaminated all
 the floppies I used and also another spare
 hard drive I hooked up as slave.
   Fortunately I had an old shareware copy of F-prot,
 not the fanciest anti-virus but the only one
 that would get the ripper virus (tried nortons and mcaffee).
  I finally had to boot from a dos 6.22 disk,
a win95 startup disk didn't work.
    Tonite I'm all cleaned up and have win95 running on
 that 640 mb hard drive.

 Thanks to all that helped:

Mark Rode wrote:
>
> I assume this is a EIDE or IDE drive. You probably have a corrupted boot
> sector or partition table which can be cured with a low level format.
> Western Digital has a utility that will low level format the drive and
> analyze it for errors. Actually all hard drive manufactures have similar
> utilities for their drives. Check WD's web page....I belive the file is
> called WD_diag.exe.
>
> Mark
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