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From: barnett@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Karey Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: IBM PC XT won't boot from hard disk anymore
Message-ID: <7729@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 91 23:41:39 GMT
References: <A3HRI8J@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de>
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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In article <A3HRI8J@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> bernd@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Bernd Gill) writes:
>
>While installing software on an IBM PC XT I accidentally introduced the
>"stoned" virus, which damaged the partition table. I then reformatted
>the hard disk as follows:
>
>       fdisk   (delete existing DOS partition, create new DOS partition)
>       format c: /S/V  (to make a bootable hard disk)
>
>Unfortunately the PC won't boot from the hard disk anymore.
>- There are no more viruses on the hard disk.
>- The PC boots ok from the floppy drive.

  You might want to try booting from the floppy drive and using the
  SYS command to make the hard drive bootable>