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From: wcurtiss@x102c.harris-atd.com (Curtiss WC 67625)
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Subject: Re: CTRL-ALT-DEL key
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Date: 30 Mar 89 13:53:00 GMT
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In article <1623@arctic.nprdc.arpa> snguyen@nprdc.arpa (Son Nguyen) writes:
< [stuff deleted]
<Can we configure the computer to boot only with "C:" drive ?	
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I once heard of a virus that supposedly did this.  It was supposed to have
mucked around with the partion information in such a way, that when the
hard disk was initialized, it seized control and never allowed the floppy
to boot.  Since it was a virus, it also erased the hard disk, and is of
no use by itself.  To recover your system, you had to remove the hard drive
cable, boot a floppy and then reinstall the drive cable (not a good thing
to do with the power on, but I'm only repeating what I heard).  You then did
a low level format of the drive.

I never saw this virus, so I do not know if this is true.  Perhaps someone
else can substantiate it.  As I recall, it was discussed my some fairly
knowledgable people so it wasn't a novice who destroyed his low level format
and wasn't patient enough for the drive init to time out.

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