Hi there, Seems ur sys is infected by the CIH virus and this will destroy ur HDD as well as ur BIOS. Many computers in our locality is infected. Their BIOS had to be replaced and the data in the HDDs could not be recovered. I have got a scan for the virus. U can have more details on the virus from http://www.cert.org. This virus will only infect Windows machines and not Linux.
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