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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Kenne on September 25, 2013, 12:12:25 PM
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Was reading Fulcrums 'how to' on removing virus from computor and wanted to try it out.
DL all the programs he suggested, burnd the ISO to CD etc.
plop the CD into the drive and rebooted. and went right to vista desktop :huh
restart, go into BIOS, make sure CD is the first boot device...try again...
same thing..right to vista desk.
grab my vista install disk and retry..same thing...right to desktop.
is THIS a virus..
does it matter if the CD is a SATA drive and not an IDE?
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once you get into windows can you explore whatever disk in the the cd drive?
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Was reading Fulcrums 'how to' on removing virus from computor and wanted to try it out.
DL all the programs he suggested, burnd the ISO to CD etc.
plop the CD into the drive and rebooted. and went right to vista desktop :huh
restart, go into BIOS, make sure CD is the first boot device...try again...
same thing..right to vista desk.
grab my vista install disk and retry..same thing...right to desktop.
is THIS a virus..
does it matter if the CD is a SATA drive and not an IDE?
In theory it's possible that the virus has infected your bios and disabled your option to boot from optical drive. Most likely however it's just some bios glitch. If your motherboard supports it you can press a key (sometimes F12) during POST to manually select the boot drive. The key depends on your motherboard model.
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once you get into windows can you explore whatever disk in the the cd drive?
yes
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In theory it's possible that the virus has infected your bios and disabled your option to boot from optical drive. Most likely however it's just some bios glitch. If your motherboard supports it you can press a key (sometimes F12) during POST to manually select the boot drive. The key depends on your motherboard model.
ASUS m3m ht
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Can you access the CD in Windows to determine your player is actually working? If you burned the CD with it, it should be intact, but if you used another computer like in a true virus case it would be harder to tell. Anyway, if you can see the contents of the CD with the computer you're playing with, the drive should be OK.
What MrRipley said about pressing a key during startup for choosing the boot device is correct. It may be F12, I've also seen F8, Esc, maybe F11 too. You might see a small message on the bottom of your start screen giving you a hint.
Also, the obvious: Although the optical drive is set as the primary boot device, you might still have to "press any button to boot from CD". Depending on your bios settings the option may pass by quite quickly. Not all bioses allow you to change the time for clicking, so you'll have to keep a keen eye on the startup procedure. Some CD's come coded with the button pressed, some others have a boot device selector of their own with a little longhttp://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/board,18.0.htmler (~15 sec) choosing time. Mostly you have to choose quite soon anyway.
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ASUS m3m ht
Try disabling all other boot options except the cdrom - that should do the trick. You can re-enable them later from the same place in bios after you fix the drive. Also try disabling the 'quick boot' option. If your dvd drive is slow to respond the boot may skip the initiation of the drive and continue booting from the hdd.
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figger it out.
thanks all :)
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what'd you do willis?
disc wasn't bootable? or did you have to create the disc on another system that wasn't infected?
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it was an 'F8 at boot choose where you want to boot from' thing :)
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Keep pressing the key during boot. I just had to reimage and noticed the same problem. My key is ESC and I had to keep pressing it, and even then it took about 5 trys.