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I think I have a virus. HELP!!!

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snailophone

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yesterday I was trying to partition a friend's hard drive for him in my own computer. all went well, I powered down, removed the drive, and tried to reboot. no go. I get the bios screen and it detects everything (processor, HDD, mouse, etc.) but goes no further. just sits there. I am pretty sure that me partitioning the hard drive has nothing to do with it because it was new (I unboxed it myself) and I dont seem to be getting any kind of hardware failure. Help me please. thanks.
 
No, I never unplugged my main drive. All I did was slave the second drive the the original one and partition it with partition magic.
 
It's probably not a virus; that's too often assumed to be the problem, when it's something else.
Get the manual for the motherboard, look for something about the CMOS reset jumper - reset the BIOS using the method described in the manual (if there is no method, just put the jumper in the CLEAR position and leave it there for 10 seconds, then put it back to its default place) - and power on. You'll probably get a checksum error or something like that because of the CMOS reset; this is normal. See if it boots now.
 
I gotta ask: did you partition the proper drive?

Don't get upset, just something that happens quite often.

without a boot sector you would only get as far as you have described.
 
haha...yeah, I partitioned the right drive. I couldnt miss it...the original drive is 40 gig and the one I was working on was 120 gig.
 
did you plug in the power supply for your drive? I know this is stupid but sometimes people forget. also double check your connections to the mobo. lastly, check the BIOS to make sure it detects your harddrive.


--Scsi
 
Well, I never unplugged my hard drive (or anything else for that matter) other that the second drive. The BIOS detects the drive at startup, but it doesn't detect my floppy all of a sudden. When I tried to boot from a rescue disc, nothing happened. Any idea why this is happening now?
 
I also get beeps from the when I restart sometimes now. Since I didn't get a techie manual with the computer (just a dumb quick start guide) I have no idea what the beeps mean. HP, you cheap bastards.
 
Correct jumper settings?!? Some HDD have different settings for Master (Single Master, Master w/Slave present) Check that. Make sure you have the HD plugged to the end connector of the IDE cable.

As for the floppy drive, that happend to me once. I simply unplugged the unit, boot up/shutdown and plugged it in again.
 
had almost the same problem before.. it turned out to be the ATA cables was sliightly out of place.. they were still in the socket but i had managed to pull them up just an inch from the mobo when i was adding a drive so some pins wouldnt connect ..
 
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