Hello J-R,

Thursday, May 13, 1999, 3:57:28 PM, you wrote:

JRBE> I have a client that has a Win95 machine that had a virus and now will not boot. The machine has no video and does not go through any of the boot process. I was able to read the drive and
JRBE> retreive the information from it. There appears to be no problems with the video or other cards in the machine. Any ideas on where to start?

First, does the machine still have a virus? Which wirus was/is there?

Three steps I'd take, in order of preference:

1) Use the backups of system drive [if there are any]
2) Format C: and reinstall OS
3) if 2 does not work, format the MBR and repeat 2

This should do any virus in.

Best regards,
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