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Fixed disk locked,Acros 486 Anti-Virus program the cause,solution?

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From: Ted Boardman
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 19:25
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I have a Acros IBM 486 compatible.  While trying to install Norton Anti-Virus
and Acros Anti-Virus, I've run into a few problems.  The end result is that my
fixed disk is locked, and it won't boot.

The Norton Anti-Virus program installation was rough, and I finally gave up. 
It seems that a library it needs is stored in a ZIP archive on the disk, and is
not uncompressed and installed on the hard disk where it belongs.  I removed
the Norton Anti-Virus program.

Next, I ran the install utilitiy for the Acros Anti-Virus program.  It went
fine, but when I re-booted the machine, it notified me that the fixed disk
would be locked to prevent read/write while it booted and ran the virus
scanner.  If no virus' was found, it was supposed to unlock the fixed disk. 
Well, as soon as it says the fixed disk is locked, it clears the screen, and
the prompt just sits there, and a couple minutes later, it still hadn't done
anything.

It'd be thrilled just to remove the darn Acros Virus Scanner and take my
chances, or even get ZIP and unZIP the file I need for Norton Anti-Virus, but
as it is now, I can't even finish booting my computer.

I can boot from a floppy, but I want it to boot from the hard disk like it used
to.  Anyone have some suggestions?

E-mail would be best, because I don't keep up with these groups. 

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From: 00tdboardman@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (Ted Boardman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Fixed disk locked,Acros 486 Anti-Virus program the cause,solution?
Message-ID: <1993Jan3.142545.13369@bsu-ucs>
Date: 3 Jan 93 19:25:45 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's
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