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From: tucker@tahoe.unr.edu (Aaron Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: hard drive problems/VirusX
Keywords: READ/WRITE ERRORS--COLD VECTOR != 0
Message-ID: <4938@tahoe.unr.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 90 08:08:05 GMT
Reply-To: tucker@tahoe.unr.edu (Aaron Tucker)
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Organization: University of Nevada, Reno
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	I have recently switched harddrive & controller with a friend.
	His Fireball controller was not working with his motherboard
	version.  I ran my new Fujitsu/Fireball hd/controller fine, then
	started getting read/write errors.  Someone suggested a virus.
	I had not yet altered my startup-sequence to put in virusx
	like I had on my previous set up.  So I ran virusX, and it told
	me "This system's Cold Vector is not equal to zero"  By playing around,
	mainly, typing "execute startup-sequence" and then running Virusx again,
	I get the same warning, but not if VirusX is running already:  I have
	to kill vx, execute the startup-sequence, then run vx to get the
	warning.  The warning comes up now when I boot up since vx is in my 
	startup-sequence again.  FixDisk shows quite a few read/write errors 
	on the hd also.  Do I have a virus, or is my new hd defective?

and thanks, all help will be greatly appreciated.

att