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From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir)
Subject: Re: IBM PC XT won't boot from hard disk anymore
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References: <A3HRI8J@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> <7729@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1991 01:32:43 GMT

In article <7729@rex.cs.tulane.edu> barnett@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Karey Barnett) writes:
>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>

Did you copy command.com to the hard disk?
What DOS version are you running?


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