Hi,

This sounds similar to a virus I had last year. Fortunately it didn't shut
me down but my hard drive was stuck in MS-DOS compatibility mode, even
after reinstalling W95 preceded by a repartition and fdisk. I remember
finding out about FDISK /MBR also.

Here's what happened. Turns out that somehow my startup disk was infected
with Black Beauty, aka NYM.b. This is a boot sector virus and I even read
an MS knowledgebase article about it. Said they were the hardest to get rid
of. I felt honored. 8^{}

Anyway, a friend used F-Prot to clean up my startup disk; then I
re-partioned, reformatted, and reinstalled from the CD. No problems.

hth,

Marty

At 05:44 PM 6/15/02 +0200, you wrote:

>drive after format and partitioning.  Now the guess is that the MBR is defect.
>A Google search brought us to try to repair it with the FDISK /MBR command but
>this command does not work (program not existing or so!?).


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