Question about fresh XP Install...

[Nickc19]

Last night I finished up putting my system together and ran a new install on XP. As it was installing a box popped up saying Boot Sector Write! VIRUS: Continue (y/n). I hit yes and windows finished installing normally. I didnt know what it was at the time but now I found online that it must've come up cause virus protection is enabled in my BIOS. So is this anything to be concerned about? Just wondering if i need to re-format my drive and do a re-install after disabling virus protection in the BIOS, or if its just nothing...

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Nickc19
Last night I finished up putting my system together and ran a new install on XP. As it was installing a box popped up saying Boot Sector Write! VIRUS: Continue (y/n). I hit yes and windows finished installing normally. I didnt know what it was at the time but now I found online that it must've come up cause virus protection is enabled in my BIOS. So is this anything to be concerned about? Just wondering if i need to re-format my drive and do a re-install after disabling virus protection in the BIOS, or if its just nothing...

If you hit yes you are fine. Basically your bios was preventing setup from writing the boot image. If you disallowed that you wouldn't have been able to boot. Since you did the end result is indentiical to the case where that setting was disabled to begin with.

 

[Nickc19]

Alright good, thanks...

 

[stash]

Wow I didn't know BIOS writers still did that.