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Greetings all-
I need a good virus checker that will fit on a floppy(s) that I can download. I suspect either this HD is going bad, or it has a virus. I just did a clean format and re-install of Windows 95, it is still erroring out on me. Scandisk is still reporting size problems in the windows/system dir.
Anyone have any thoughts?
One other note - this is an older system with McAffee on it. I cannot run the command line version because it gives me this error:
Self-check failed! Exiting!
This is Scan version V.2.5
I cannot boot windows in any mode, not even safe mode. Is there a easy way to check the HD for looming failure?
Thanks,
Al
Alien,
I spent time trying to do exactly the same thing. I ended up making a bootable CD with F-Prot's DOS based virus scanner.
Works almost perfectly. I tried editing the FINDCD command to launch f-prot.exe on startup but wasn't succesful however I can still type it in from the command line and it runs great. Another, similiar work around would be for you to burn just F-Prot (with latest definitions) to CD and then boot from a floppy with CD support and go from there.