AVG MBR report

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Hope someone can help here please. A few days ago I ran the latest (at
that time) AVG v7.0 and got this message '$(@BootSekto) C:' (without the
'). I was offered options of 'Keep, Info, Confirm changes' but I didn't
know what to do so I closed it with the x in r/h corner of the box. I
did a search on the AVG site but got nothing back, nor did anything come
up on a Google search! Now, the message has changed, I no longer get the
above but just 'Partition table MBR'. I updated AVG today to the latest
and created new floppy set but they don't work, I get 'invalid system
disk' with disk 1. What has happened and how can I fix it?
I'm running XPHome +SP1 and the system works fine otherwise, although I
get the invalid system disk message with Silicon Image DOS driver disk
but it still boots every time off hard disk.
I've heard of the format /mbr command but I would need to know if it
_only_ fixes the MBR or is it destructive on the whole partition and how
do I use it?
Thanks for any help.
 
The command you are thinking of is fdisk/mbr, but its not for use with XP.
You need to boot from the XP CD and use the repair feature, there is a help
there but I think the command is FIXMBR.

Neil
 
neil said:
The command you are thinking of is fdisk/mbr, but its not for use with XP.
You need to boot from the XP CD and use the repair feature, there is a help
there but I think the command is FIXMBR.
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Yes, it is fixmbr which does the trick but then next time I run AVG it
comes back again with the virus message. I've had to repair fixmbr,
fixboot and copy NTLDR about 3 or 4 times now! I am guessing that AVG
has written stuff to my disk which gets called up again when I run AVG
again, so I'm going to uninstall, remove all reference to AVG and see
how the system behaves and try AVG again.
Does that sound the way to go?
Thanks.
 
Hi
It is possible the virus is hiding in the system restore files, although I'm
not 100% sure. You can turn off the system restore feature then reboot the
PC and try a scan with AVG again, after turn it back on again.
I'm not sure an uninstall will achieve anything.

Best of luck
Neil
 
neil said:
Hi
It is possible the virus is hiding in the system restore files, although I'm
not 100% sure. You can turn off the system restore feature then reboot the
PC and try a scan with AVG again, after turn it back on again.
I'm not sure an uninstall will achieve anything.
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Hi Neil. Well, the system collapsed completely so I had to do a clean
install which seems to have got rid of it. I hadn't thought of System
Restore though, good point. I'll remember next time!
 
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