Windows 2000 re-installation

[Quasi]

Hello all,

Another trojan horse has hit my fathers laptop. This time we cannot find the virus files, and even when it is not hooked up to the internet, over 10 internet explorer popups try to come up at the same time and it crashes the system. This event appears to be timed for every 5 minutes. Because of this, we need to delete the partition, and re install everything. He backed up his data already. When we tried to re-install windows 2000, it would not let us delete the HD partition where the trojan horse is. I think it is in the design of the system to not allow this. When I upgraded to XP on my computer, it allowed me to boot from the CD, and it deleted the partition and worked fine. However, even when using my XP disc on the laptop (not breaking the license agreement because I was only going to use the utility to delete the partition,) it will not boot on the CD, but goes right to the Windows 2000 startup. Any ideas? :confused:

[Skeptical Greg]

Originally posted by Quasi
Hello all,

Another trojan horse has hit my fathers laptop. This time we cannot find the virus files, and even when it is not hooked up to the internet, over 10 internet explorer popups try to come up at the same time and it crashes the system. This event appears to be timed for every 5 minutes. Because of this, we need to delete the partition, and re install everything. He backed up his data already. When we tried to re-install windows 2000, it would not let us delete the HD partition where the trojan horse is. I think it is in the design of the system to not allow this. When I upgraded to XP on my computer, it allowed me to boot from the CD, and it deleted the partition and worked fine. However, even when using my XP disc on the laptop (not breaking the license agreement because I was only going to use the utility to delete the partition,) it will not boot on the CD, but goes right to the Windows 2000 startup. Any ideas? :confused:

Did you set the BIOS to boot from CD as 1st choice?

[ShowMe]

Originally posted by Diogenes


Did you set the BIOS to boot from CD as 1st choice?

That would be my first guess as well. Also verify that there isn't any BIOS resident antivirus software that prevents anything from writing to the boot partition.

If it's an older laptop with an older hard drive booting from the CD may not be an option. If that's the case you'll need to make some boot disks by putting the CD into a different computer and running the disk making option from the directory. (I don;t have Win2K in front of me right now, but if you load in the CD and explore it the files are pretty obvious).

If you're still stuck for boot disks try http://www.bootdisk.com

[Psi Baba]

Seagate has a handy DiskWizard utility that you can download and use for free. I received a copy with the hard drive I just bought a few weeks ago.

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html

It might be worth a try. It should work on any brand of drive, though I haven't tested that assumption.