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bad sectors virus

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From: Geetanjali Talreja
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:00
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I have partitioned my disk and have 95 on C and NT on D and E.
Recently for some unknown reason 95 stopped booting. When I booted NT and
ran a disk check on C with options to 'Scan for and attempt recovery of bad
sectors', the result was the disk check ate up all my free space and disk
showed '0 bytes available'. I cleared space from C, repeated above process
and it kept eating up free space and making it bad sectors. Now all file
space occupied on a 1.5 GB partition on C is about 300MB only, the rest is
all converted to bad sectors by the disk check program.
Now I wonder what is going on, is it possible that suddenly almost the whole
disk is bad sectors? is this a virus which is showing everything as bad
sectors? I could boot once in 'safe mode' on 95 and I ran disk
de-fragmentor, it shows the disk map while it goes along de-fragmenting, and
it was obvious there that most of the disk is of bad-sectors!!!! What is
going on here? I am scared to run disk check on my other partitions.
I have also applied McAfee version 4.0 on C and it shows no virus.
C is FAT
D and E are NTFS
please help!!!
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From: "Geetanjali Talreja" <geetraj@email.msn.com>
Subject: bad sectors virus
Date: 1999/07/16
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