"gray57" wrote in message ...
hope there is some help out there. I have a computer that ran windows 98 SE.
My kid got a virus on it, so bad, that it could not boot up. (Of course she
did not say anything and kept trying to reboot so I can not turn the system
back to the last clean boot).
I removed the hard drive and did a virus scan from another computer. Bingo,
there wiere a combination of 119 Viruses, Tojans and Mal Ware. I scanned it
again using a different antivirus software on a different computer and it was
clean. I copied all documents, pictures, worksheets etc onto a CD to save
information.
Put back the hard drive and tried to boot up and it stalls.
I went into safemode and tried again. It runs through the Windows Setup
screen, by stalls at the configuring system step. I let it run for 24 hour
and it remaine at 6 bars across the bottom.
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Go into the BIOS setup and see if boot virus protection is enabled. If so,
disable it. Be sure the save the settings when exiting. If this doesn't help,
try cleaning the Windows 98 CD or copying the setup files to the hard drive
and running setup from there.

Ben