> Now, this thing turned out not to be a virus at all. Instead, it turned > into the ONLY ONLY ONLY .exe I've EVER come across that does PHYSICAL > damage to a machine.... I'm in no way kidding. > > I saw what I had done fast.... I had went to close the window and > accidentally double clicked on it instead and instantly hit for the > power switch to shut the machine off.... It was to late though. I saw a > DOS Prompt come up saying something or other, and when I turned the > machine back on, it wouldn't even boot. > > This machine ran Windows 95, had a lot of MP3s, and some movies and > pics. When that happened, I couldn't even get Windows 3.1 to install. > > A friend and I worked on it all the time, and I was shocked. I couldn't > do anything.... I managed to install PC-DOS on this thing, and then when > I tried to install Windows 3.1, it said the drive wasn't big enough! > > I the next day, went and bought my first paidfor computer, and used it > insted which I still have, but the fact that later in life when I > started using Linux, about a year later, I tried again to install Linux > on the drive that thing killed. > > Linux wouldn't install either, it said the drive was screwed up and > couldn't even fix it except for a small DOS partition which was like, a > few MBs.
could it be that the program simply changed disk geometry in BIOS to something small, and you did not notice? [SorAlx] ridin' VN2000 Classic LT _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
