Gold leader Posted December 14, 2000 Share Posted December 14, 2000 Some sick **** has created a virus that decided to format my harddrive after I scanned and opened the .doc that contained it!!! Now with my empty HD I can't get Winblows reinstalled, cos I can't access my cd-rom player in the dos environment. Could someone please give me a little help on what to do about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted December 14, 2000 Share Posted December 14, 2000 Hold on little buddy, someone should know what to do.. I don't, my wife does all of that stuff for me. I would call home and wake her up as this is a serious problem but she has a class to go to and she has to get up at 4:45am. Ok, so I really wouldn't wake her up but it still is a serious prob. Someone should be by soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted December 14, 2000 Share Posted December 14, 2000 There has to be some way as this has happened to me before but I'm not sure what the wife did... Do you have a bootdisk? Can't you start from a boot disk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted December 14, 2000 Author Share Posted December 14, 2000 I tried this yesterday evening: I started the computer, and it asked for a systemdisk. I dunno what that it, but it's not the boot disk. So I modified the BIOS to change the startup sequence from C,CDROM,A to A,C,SCSI. When I restarted, the boot disk worked and I arrived in this DOS environment. But from there I cannot get to CDrom station, which means I can't reinstall Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted December 14, 2000 Share Posted December 14, 2000 I think the bootdisk should work. Some how.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted December 14, 2000 Author Share Posted December 14, 2000 It seems that I have to change my autoexec.bat on my boot disk to get mscdex.exe working properly to get CDROM access. I'm not sure that solves it, but I'll try it this afternoon, err morning CET . Of course I'm still open for other suggestions... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted December 14, 2000 Share Posted December 14, 2000 Well bootdisk is the only advice I can give so I'll just step back now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chewie's hairbrush Posted December 14, 2000 Share Posted December 14, 2000 You have to load the dos driver for your cdrom driver I think. So that'll need to be on your boot disk. How you do that I'm not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUNNER Posted December 14, 2000 Share Posted December 14, 2000 You can make a bootdisk from DOS can't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted December 14, 2000 Share Posted December 14, 2000 Well, first you need to make sure you HAVE the drivers for your CD-ROM on a disk somewhere. Then start up your system, install them, and...that's it. Unless I am not getting something, here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted December 14, 2000 Author Share Posted December 14, 2000 If I just knew were my cdrom driver disk was (if I have it, which I should, I guess), I think my problem would be solved, chewie. I don't think making a bootdisk from dos will work since there are no files on my HD to make that disk. Maybe I should turn the house upside down to find the cdrom driver disk. It must be somewhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted December 14, 2000 Share Posted December 14, 2000 I think that's your best bet. If you can't find it, you can probably download them from the manufacturer's website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AceAzzameen Posted December 14, 2000 Share Posted December 14, 2000 If you're still not fixed, there's a simpler solution. You have your Windows CD? You change your bios to boot from CD-ROM & it runs Windows setup automaticallly from that. ------------------ "With the blast shield down, I can't even see. How am I supposed to fight?" Rogue Leader 3 aceazzameen@yahoo.com or manofstele@yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rune Haako Posted December 14, 2000 Share Posted December 14, 2000 Whoa! It's a TIE Defender! Sorry, I haven't seen one of those since September. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted December 15, 2000 Share Posted December 15, 2000 That doesn't always work, Ace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted December 15, 2000 Author Share Posted December 15, 2000 Mysteriously ( ), the bootdisk suddenly worked. It took me only an hour to reinstall Windows. Now my dad's taken the machine to his school's system administrator, to see if he can rescue some of his documents (he's never made a backup, of course...:eek . Perhaps I might be able to do some posting this weekend. ------------------ A post a day keeps the doctor away. <font size=-3> [This message has been edited by Gold leader (edited December 15, 2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR2000Z Posted December 16, 2000 Share Posted December 16, 2000 We can hardly wait... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ike Posted December 16, 2000 Share Posted December 16, 2000 get somebody who has windows 98 to make you a boot disk. it should contain the option of using cdrom in DOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted December 16, 2000 Share Posted December 16, 2000 Here's what you do, take your HD, and any credit cards you have, and ruun them by a HUGE magnet, your problems will be solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted December 18, 2000 Author Share Posted December 18, 2000 Originally posted by JR2000Z: We can hardly wait... j00 = f4g0t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fondas Posted December 18, 2000 Share Posted December 18, 2000 How did I manage to miss this thread...? Anyway, Gold Leader if you're still having problems let me now. I'll sent you an e-mail with autoexec.bat and config.sys that you need to modify on your boot disk, in order to load the cd-rom ------------------ "No matter how pretty the bait, a hook is still a hook !" TZG+7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR2000Z Posted December 18, 2000 Share Posted December 18, 2000 I was exaduating GL. Its okay Fondas,the funs over now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted December 19, 2000 Author Share Posted December 19, 2000 The same goes for me JR2000Z (wow, I spelled your name right for the first time!). And Fondas, thanks for your offer, but the problem is already solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR2000Z Posted December 20, 2000 Share Posted December 20, 2000 OMG! Someone spelled my name right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold leader Posted December 20, 2000 Author Share Posted December 20, 2000 It's really not that hard. Just copy+paste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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