Is it possible for a virus on a single hdd with two partitions to spread from the 2nd partition to the first and prevent an install of windows XP? With "can't read from CD" errors or just lockups during file copy process etc... I freshly formatted my first partition and tried to install the o/s and it just wont go... is it possible to check for a virus on a HDD from dos? I've ran memtest 86+ for several hours, and my temperatures are fine now..
This all started from a bluescreen of death from a cpu overheat... ever since then its been crashing and wont let me do a full (AVG) virus scan before it crashes..
So I dunno what to do... I've removed all unnecessary hardware, I just have 1 stick of 512 pc3200 giel ultra memory, 1 xp 3200+ 400fsb, 1 leadtek fx5900, and a a7n8x-e deluxe, 1 floppy, 1 Seagate 160gb 7200rpm SATA drive (I've also tried my WD120gb 7200 IDE drive, alone), 1 Termaltake 420W quiet PSU
Not sure what to do.. try a fresh formatted bare IDE drive with no other files? ( I say that because all of the HDDs that I've tested have had files that were exposed to the virus (if there was one), or atleast were up and running on the same machine as my o/s drive).
Thinking about trying the latest bios... and an older SATA driver... shrug... help pls.
This all started from a bluescreen of death from a cpu overheat... ever since then its been crashing and wont let me do a full (AVG) virus scan before it crashes..
So I dunno what to do... I've removed all unnecessary hardware, I just have 1 stick of 512 pc3200 giel ultra memory, 1 xp 3200+ 400fsb, 1 leadtek fx5900, and a a7n8x-e deluxe, 1 floppy, 1 Seagate 160gb 7200rpm SATA drive (I've also tried my WD120gb 7200 IDE drive, alone), 1 Termaltake 420W quiet PSU
Not sure what to do.. try a fresh formatted bare IDE drive with no other files? ( I say that because all of the HDDs that I've tested have had files that were exposed to the virus (if there was one), or atleast were up and running on the same machine as my o/s drive).
Thinking about trying the latest bios... and an older SATA driver... shrug... help pls.