[scarecreaux]

Thank you for this site. I have read neumerous posts similar to my problem, however none fit exactly. I have 2 computers with a total of 3 HD's (1 was ext backup...lol) all infected with the same virus. System begans to start up and gets as far as windows loggin screen and then BSOD and restart loop. Safe mode gives same result. The difference with my prob and others mentioned is that the boot is defaulted to the HD in BIOS and the virus has removed the ability to change it to CD ( for virus removal or repair install). I have a third clean desktop and my intent is to slave the HD's sequentially and run removal or data recovery software. However this is where my knowledge borders on "just enough to be dangerous". The first time I tried this is how the 2nd comp was infected. Like an idiot I slaved the HD and restarted but not in safe mode. The second wondows recognized the additional HD, WHAM!!...BSOD and reboot loop. I should mention that at BSOD there is a error notice but it is so fast to reboot that it can't be read.
My question is two fold:
1. How do I slave the HD safely so that I can run the required software, and can this be done via external drive case and USB? (are there ports to disable or is safe mode sufficent to prevent 3rd comp from infection?)
2. What virus is this???

 

[scarecreaux]

Oh yea, I don't know if this is significant, but this started about 5 months ago.....I have 6 comp's at home and kinda put these on back burner for a while. Therefore this isn't a recent virus and may not even be an issue anymore (except for me...lol)

 

[techkid]

On your third computer, your antivirus software should provide an option to create an "Emergency boot disk" (assuming you have a floppy drive). Run through the process, providing the necessary disks. When it is done, change all the disks to read-only (in the corner of the disks is a little tab. Flip this tab so the hole is exposed), and run on the two computers (assuming they have floppy disks, too).

There probably is a way to do a bootable CD, but I haven't seen it myself. Maybe someone out there could shed some light on that.

EDIT: Err... there is one thing I did forget. If your drive is formatted to NTFS, this isn't going to work, since FAT partitioned systems can't see NTFS without 3rd-party tools.