Won't boot. Virus?

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Mike Meier

Tonight, Sunday, while working at home, and during "60
Minutes", my Windows 2000 Pro (not server) system failed
to boot. It makes it to about 2/3rds through the screen
with the Windows logo, then I get a bsod mentioning stop
error 7B - boot device not accessible, I think. (The
system is at home. I'm at work sending this
message.) "Getting Started" says it is probably a virus.
None of the Safe Mode approaches worked, but running
Recovery Console from the CD-ROM is successful in getting
the system started. I am logged on as the administrator.
Now what do I do? How do I find and eliminate the virus?
I can't find anything useful at Symantec. Do I have to
reinstall Windows 2000?

By the way, my system is connected to the Internet using
DSL, through a router, and I'm running Norton SystemWorks
Pro 2003 and Norton Personal Firewall. Norton Antivirus
scans the computer every night. How did this happen?

Thanks in advance.
 
The exact word for word error message would be helpful, if possible.
Searching www.google.com, www.google.com/advanced_group_search and
www.microsoft.com/support for that error message is good as well.

I'm not necessarily certain it's a virus. If it was a virus, I might
recommend putting the hard drive into another computer and scan it
from there. Another alternative might be to install Windows to a
second folder on the original hard drive, or using a boot floppy from
your antivirus vendor or www.f-secure/products with the latest
antivirus updates to scan the drive [unless it's formatted in NTFS].
Depending on what the search above and/or the antivirus scan tell you
about the most likely causes for your error message, off the top of my
head I might consider problems with a newly installed driver or patch,
loose or failing hardware, corrupt hard drive, etc.
 
Thanks.
I was reinstalling my Linksys router software when this
all happened.

The error was definitely Stop:Error 0x0000007B,
inaccessible boot device. "Getting Started" says it
happens when the I/O system could not be loaded. It also
gave some of the same reccomentdation you have. By the
way, I've got SCSI on this system, and I use NTFS. A
reply on another board said he has seen this problem a
number of times on systems with SCSI drives.

Mike
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The exact word for word error message would be helpful, if possible.
Searching www.google.com,
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www.google.com/advanced_group_search and
www.microsoft.com/support for that error message is good as well.

I'm not necessarily certain it's a virus. If it was a virus, I might
recommend putting the hard drive into another computer and scan it
from there. Another alternative might be to install Windows to a
second folder on the original hard drive, or using a boot floppy from
your antivirus vendor or www.f-secure/products with the latest
antivirus updates to scan the drive [unless it's formatted in NTFS].
Depending on what the search above and/or the antivirus scan tell you
about the most likely causes for your error message, off the top of my
head I might consider problems with a newly installed driver or patch,
loose or failing hardware, corrupt hard drive, etc.



"Mike Meier" <[email protected]> wrote
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Tonight, Sunday, while working at home, and during "60
Minutes", my Windows 2000 Pro (not server) system failed
to boot. It makes it to about 2/3rds through the screen
with the Windows logo, then I get a bsod mentioning stop
error 7B - boot device not accessible, I think. (The
system is at home. I'm at work sending this
message.) "Getting Started" says it is probably a virus.
None of the Safe Mode approaches worked, but running
Recovery Console from the CD-ROM is successful in getting
the system started. I am logged on as the administrator.
Now what do I do? How do I find and eliminate the virus?
I can't find anything useful at Symantec. Do I have to
reinstall Windows 2000?

By the way, my system is connected to the Internet using
DSL, through a router, and I'm running Norton SystemWorks
Pro 2003 and Norton Personal Firewall. Norton Antivirus
scans the computer every night. How did this happen?

Thanks in advance.
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