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Is this a virus that ate 2 hard drives?
Hi yall. Problem: Computer crashed and would no longer boot from drive. This was a sata drive, plus I had an identical sata as storage. Both are seen in bios, system drive won't boot, and most importantly, computer won't boot at all, even from cd, until I remove the system drive from the computer. Now no computer will boot if this drive is connected, so I can't even format it or diagnose it. Long story longer, I put in another drive and installed xp. This drive was an ide, cuz I was suspect of the sata (even thought my sata storage drive never got hurt). Ide system drive worked for a week, then died in the exact same way, no boot up if it's connected to any computer. I can't see how a hardware failure could kill 2 hard drives on 2 different controllers in the same way. I'm afraid a virus may have been in the files I restored to the new install, and now I'm worried cuz I put the backup files on a different computer so these people have a computer to use, and I'm afraid their going to fry this hard drive too. Any ideas?
Tim
Tim
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If the drive is replaced then any infection should be completely gone.
Is something causing a power spike to the drives ?
Thanks. I did, and still do suspect the power supply, but testing found one of the 2 memory dimms was faulty. Just yesterday swapped a new pair of dimms and prime95 and memtest86 both ran for 24 hours with no errors. So knock on wood...........
I'm glad you tracked it down
The thought of an infection that survives a new HD is not pleasant