FDISK has no effect, Virus??

My wife received a virus via e-mail, quarantined it with Norton Anti-virus, next re-boot, nothing works. Seems any disk writes cause crash of application attempting disk write.

Tried using Partition Magic to blow off primary partition, reboot, still there. Used FDISK to delete primary partition, reboot, still there. Booted from win98 CD, Used FDISK /MBR to rewrite MBR, then ran FDISK,still have same original partition. Used PowerMax from Maxtor, (have a Maxtor hard drive) to diagnose disk, advanced diagnostics find all is well.

Desperation time, did low level format on disk, reboot, still same partitions on disk!!! Now what????

TIA
Dave

Hi Dave,



Does PowerMax have a "Zero-fill" or "write zeroes to the hard disk" utility? That should do the trick!

TOm

What's up, I'm Darkchild.

I have the exact same problem! And it's annoying me dead! Anyway, a low level format is the same as a zero fill drive. It rewrites the drive completely with zero's. I know because I used both zero fill and low level format on my drive. I also have a maxtor hard drive. I used Powermax and Maxblast utillity. And neither helped. My drive is still crazy.

Sometimes I don't even have to use the hard drive and my computer already crashes. For example going to specific sites or trying to play a video clip directly from internet. It's even worse when I run it directly from my hard drive. I can't even run a gif. picture without my computer freezing. I don't understand how even after multiple virus scans, formatting and zero filling my drive it still crashes.

Can anybody help?