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re: lost boot sector because of wyx virus Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 8:33 pm Posted by Shane (7 messages posted) Boot the machine with a clean disk and run the Solo Antivirus wyx removal tool from the link www.srnmicro.com/downloads/CleanWYX.exe It may help you. On Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 6:23 pm, Rommy wrote: >I have a notebook with windows XP. My antivirus software (AVG antivirus) detected >wyx virus in the boot sector and try to clean it. But after that I cannot access >my harddisk, which by the way had 2 partitions in it. The error message says "NTLDR >missing". If I boot from a windows boot disk, it cannot detect my 2 partitions. So >how can i restore my partitions and my important data? please help me. :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: lost boot sector because of wyx virus Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 11:39 pm Posted by Rommy (2 messages posted) I already clean the virus with AVG antivirus: but More problems show up, such as: - I cannot boot to windows XP, because NTLDR missing and HAL missing - If I use windows 98 boot disk, my harddisk (15gb) with 2 partitions are not detected. - If I use recovery console from Windows XP prof. CD, I cannot do CHKDSK, with a message "the disk contain unrecoverable errors". so what to do now? to restore my important files, located in the 2 partitions. help.. help.. On Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 8:33 pm, shane wrote: > >Boot the machine with a clean disk and run the Solo Antivirus wyx removal tool from >the link www.srnmicro.com/downloads/CleanWYX.exe > >It may help you. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: lost boot sector because of wyx virus Monday, May 26, 2003 at 7:28 am Posted by Matthew D. Healy (1255 messages posted) At this point, I fear you are most likely looking at a reformat and reinstall. If you have data files that are not backed up, your best option now is to look in the back of a computer magazine for the "data recovery service" ads. Such companies do not come cheap, but with your disk in the state you describe they are the best way to recover what can be recovered. Attempts at do-it-yourself recovery now are at least as likely to make matters worse as to recover your data. And once you do have whatever can be recovered, please start doing regular backups. At a bare minimum, you should burn your document files to CDR. My old home box died in September after five years of faithful service; since it was obsolescent and I had backups, I simply bought a new PC and that was that; without backups I would have been in big trouble. On Sunday, May 25, 2003 at 11:39 pm, Rommy wrote: >I already clean the virus with AVG antivirus: >but More problems show up, such as: >- I cannot boot to windows XP, because NTLDR missing and >HAL missing >- If I use windows 98 boot disk, my harddisk (15gb) with 2 partitions are not detected. >- If I use recovery console from Windows XP prof. CD, I cannot do CHKDSK, with a >message "the disk contain unrecoverable errors". > >so what to do now? to restore my important files, located in the 2 partitions. help.. >help.. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum