My mates PC has suffered a nasty attack from what he tells me is the Chernobyl virus. His machine now fails to complete a chkdsk upon startup and he has a stack load of corrupted files and folders that just won't delete. On top of that the Master Boot Record has been damaged.
If I offer to go round and take a look will I soon be upto my armpits in PC related sh!t ? Or shall I tell him to take it down to PCWorld ?
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Have you tried booting in SAFEMODE/COMMAND PROMPT and running FDISK /MBR ? That should fix a Boot Record issue.
Also -- you may want to goto Norton (Symantec) and see what the extent of damage caused by Chernobyl is and any processes to recover. -
Mmm, FDISK the MBR. That's old-school geek talk
Other option is running disk first aid by booting from the OS installation disc. I can't recall the steps for this though I think it prompts you on screen. I had to do it a few months ago after a failed attempt at dual-booting Linux.
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