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From: csfed@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Frank Doss)
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Subject: Re: Hong Kong on MircoTough dist. disks (PC)
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Date: 13 Jun 91 16:43:07 GMT
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dwe29248@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek William Ebdon) writes:
>One thing that Mr. Doss forgot to mention is that although Central
> . . .
>it cannot remove the virus from a hard drive.  The only way to
>disinfect a hard drive is to redo the low level format because the

For those of you with IDE hard drives, contact Seagate.  They are
selling Disk Manager (version 4.1 or later is needed) for $6.00.  This
version of Disk Manager will format the boot sector, partition table,
and the data sections of the disk, but not the error table.  You might
want to ask Seagate and your vendors for details.

I am not endorsing Disk Manager, but merely reporting what Mr. Ebdon has
reported as what worked for him.

Thanks, Derek, for the reminder.  I hope your machine is working much
better now.  ;-)

Frank E. Doss
Eastern Illinois University