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| trebor 2001-02-23, 2:53 am |
| I am a bit confused by these similar questions with two different answers from the Troytec study guide.
Any clarification would be appreciated.
Question 1: You are upgrading Win98 to Win2K. After text mode you reboot. Bios checker indicates an infected MBR. What do you do?
A: Disable virus checker in BIOS
Question 2: You are upgrading Win98 to Win2K. Bios checker indicates an infected MBR. BIOS is damaged. What do you do?
A:Boot from CD and repair the MBR.
Trebor | |
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| The BIOS virus checker doesn't always indicate that there is a virus present. When Windows 2000 setup rewrote the MBR, the BIOS picked up on that and warned you of the possibility of a virus. I find that to be more of a hassle than what it's worth, so I always disable it. | |
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| The key here (IMHO) is the "after text mode" part of the first question. This indicates that the probable cause of the message is the actual installation of W2K. The second question seems (to me) that you haven't gotten that far and the likely cause is a virus, therefore, you _repair_ the MBR.
(Anybody think it might be something different?) |
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