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Why not take the virus infected drive and simply format it?

In the virus infected system, when I use the WIN98 Startup disk, the system does not recognize the CD drive and I have no way to reinstall WIN98. I thot the CMOS might be somehow affected so I took the battery out and then brought the BIOS back to default settings. That did not help. So I am between a rock and a hard spot. How can I reformat the C partition of the virus affected system and re-install WIN98 when the system will not detect the cd drive and thus does not load the cd drivers.

Hi Mark,

Let me take this one step further – can I take a HD which has WIN 98 SE installed on it from one computer and put it into another computer? What I would like to do is copy the WIN98 SE disk onto the D partition of the GOOD computer. Then take the the HD from the GOOD computer and put it as the master on the BAD computer. The HD drive from the GOOD computer would have WIN98 SE installed on the C partition and a copy of the WIN 98 SE installation disk on the D partition. Could I then install WIN 98 to the “first” partition on the second HD in the BAD computer – and then make the second HD the Master drive so that the Operating System would work from it. ??

The BAD computer is infected with a virus which has corrupted most of the EXE files. When I try to run the WIN 98 SE installation disk, I get an error message that SETUP.EXE is not a valid win32 application. So I am hoping that the HD from the GOOD computer would allow me to run the SETUP.EXE and install WIN 98 to the first partition on the other hard drive.

When I turn the system on “normally”, the startup messages says that the Primary and Secondary Master and Slave were not detected. However, on the next “page” it shows the hard drive and the CD drive. And I can use the cd drive. When I start the system with the WIN 98 Startup disk, I get a message saying that no cd drive was detected and then another message saying that the cd drivers were not installed.

Ooops – the error message again says that no cd drive was detected.

I just borrowed a regular CD DRIVE and tried the WIN 98 Startup DISK – no luck. Again, I get an error message saying

Yes, I am selecting WITH CD ROM SUPPORT. If I can find a driver for my DVD, how do I get it on the STARTUP disk and activated?

I have not formatted the drive yet. Am trying. I try to start the computer with a WIN 98 Startup disk but it does not find the cd rom device and does not load the drivers. How do I find and install the “real mode” drivers for the cd drive?

A friend of mine wanted to change his outlook express name from CHARLES to CHUCK – had to go to his ISP as they somehow controlled it.

I may not have been as clear as I could have on the problem. The computer “restarts” by itself. It is already on and will just restart for no good reason. It is not “turning on” – it “restarts”.

I really only run WIN XP so not sure if it happens in both OSs.

No – selective startup was the choice. It re-enabled itself even under the selective startup choice.

Yup – tis old. I figure he got it with his computer which is a 166 MHZ no-name brand – figure about 5 years old. I will try the suggestions in MS knowledge base article and let you know. I had already checked the System.INI for minSPs or whatever they are supposed to be. No listing there at all. Thanks for your help.

A friend claimed he did not have it installed – but now he says – oops – it is. Thanks anyhoo.

Hey Mark

Should the shortcut read as follows:

C:/windows/rundll32.exe,user,exitwindows

I tried it and I get the message that the file can not be found????

i am having no luck. I found the rundll.exe in the windows directory. Adjusted the shortcut to read C:windowsrundll.exe user.exe exitwindows When I click on it, nothing happens????