[pchelpers] Re: (No Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 07:10:54 -0500



It is better to use a virus removal tool.

If you boot from a clean floppy, FDISK /MBR will rewrite the code in the
MBR without affecting the partition information itself, unless the
partition information is corrupted or encoded (some viruses do this).

Plain FDISK, without the /MBR option, will not rewrite the code, unless
FDISK thinks that the entire boot sector is bad, in which case it'll
rewrite the entire thing.

--Scott.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Billyus
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 6:16 am

> I need my memory refreshing,.........if a pc has a virus in 
> the boot sector, will running a full "fdisk" remove the virus 
> as well as all other info.

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