Todd and Margo, That's what I wanted to do first. But I considered more fun to try to use USB stick. I did precisely the same command on the sda but for reasons of security (read as -fear of unknown). since I'm on of 1.1mil without the electricity now, I haven't had a chance to try any other option yet.
Thank you AZ On Oct 31, 2012 2:55 PM, "Todd And Margo Chester" <toddandma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/29/2012 02:41 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > >> since the weather is perfect t for drinking and catching up on all the >> little things that ive been procrastinated to do, i decided to revive >> the virus ridden laptop. >> That's some "alienware" from Dell . it doesn't have a cd/dvd . So the >> only option is to boot from usb stick. >> >> i have win7 iso and followed http://reboot.pro/8381/. >> yet the only result on the screen i see is "SYSLINUX 4.02 20120 .... " >> and black screen. >> >> Anything i need to be aware of ? >> >> Any feedback is welcomed. >> AZ >> >> > Hi Andrew, > > I do not know about the usb stick thing, but have > you thought of borrowing someone's USB external > DVD drive? > > Also, if you have a boot sector virus and you intend > to wipe anyway, this always works for me: > > THIS WILL RUIN YOUR PARTITION TABLE and all your data! > > Boot off a live CD: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 count=100 > > I have had to do this just to get the Windows Installer > (XP and W7) to recognize a hard drive that had a boot > sector virus several times. (Live CD rescues Windows yet > again!) > > -T >
