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On the subject "booting problems"
Yogi deliberated and said:
>Hello
>
>A friend of mine's PC failed to bootup this morning, it came up with
>operating system not found, he then used a start up disk which came up with
>can't find valid FAT or FAT32 partition. It gave him a few options, to run
>fdisk, all he did was fdisk/ status which told him he had a 8.4Gb hard drive
>(which was correct) but none of it was used??, and that he might have a
>virus, but I don't have a virus checker that you can run through DOS, are
>there any?? . When he boots from the startup disk, he boots to A:\ but can't
>get to his hard drive, when he goes to c:\ it's just his virtual RAM drive??
>
>If anyone can help/suggest further places to post this message please let me
>know
>
You posted on the 26th April, ISTR the CIH (Chernobel sp) virus is a
good bet for this date and produces effects as you describe.

D/L navc10.exe which is a good DOS AV checker and can detect most.

tc 
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