Formatted and reinstalled windows to a computer the other day - before setup even started I realised there was a boot sector virus on the PC (Trend AV - presume this is preloaded in bios... indicated there was).
Anyway, I assumed deleting the partition and formatting would get rid of the virus... It formatted anyway, and I reinstalled XP.
Windows loaded fine, proceeded to reinstall office, and then installed AVG AV. Did a final reboot to test everything was working before I gave it back when upon trying to load the CP it BSOD'd. It said dumping physical memory, so I was going to leave it until that had finished when lo and behold the bloody power failed, and the computer rebooted.... upon rebooting on the original post screen it wouldn't detect either primary master or slave.. (This being the HDD and one of the CD Drives). There's 4 things on the IDE Channels btw, a hdd and cd rom on one channel and 2 cd roms on the other channel - yeah not ideal.
So anyway, it will not detect either the primary master, HDD or primary slave CD Rom on the post screen now.
Soooo, I managed to load setup again via one of the other CD rom drives, managed to repartition the original HDD AGAIN, and copied the setup files over to it - so its obv. working!
However upon rebooting and setting the boot order to HDD first, it will not detect the HDD and as such won't boot from it.
My thoughts are that the boot sector virus has buggered something up.. I did scan via AVG to see if it'd detect it in winblows but as it was the free ed. only it didn't see anything.
Any ideas? A low level format a cure? Anyone direct me to any decent programs?
