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System hangs after POST

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Crappopotamus

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My dad was exporting bookmarks from mozilla to the a drive, and the computer crashed. After that, he restarted and was stopped bc there was a virus on the a drive. He took the disk out, but now when you boot the computer, it just hangs after post. You just get the blinking curser, but no windows starts up.

I virus scanned the floppy and norton got this:
Source: The boot record of drive A: is infected with the Form virus.
link

i also noticed it had some startup files, command.com and autoexec.bat and something else, and i deleted those.

from what i can tell the virus shouldnt have caused this kinda problem... i booted into the winxp recovery console. chkdsk wouldnt run. and fixboot scares me, a google search revealed some people lost all their data using it 😱

any idea what it could be? help help!
 
Did you try booting into safe mode? If you are really concerned about the data, you should take that drive to another pc and pull it off before doing anything else.
 
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