If the motherboard is fairly new, you can boot from CDROM using any of
several "anti-virus" programs.  You can also make a bootable "rescue disk"
with many a-v softwares.  If you have gotten all info from the disk, attach
it to an operational and virus-protected system, where the new drive should
be automatically scanned/cleaned/fixed, or at least you could re-format.
Martin Kurr
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> From:         J-R Business Equipment[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> 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 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?

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