P C Advice

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Floppy boot with only HD1 installed

The reason for trying this, is to see if your files on HD1 are still accessible by "dos" from a dos prompt.

type C:\, and press the enter key.

If your Computer tells you that there is no Hard Drive present, try your bootable recovery discs from your antivirus program.

You might be able to use the floppy recovery discs from your antivirus program to "clean" the HD1 of any viruses. If so you can then set the HD1 to slave and copy any files that have not been corrupted to your "new" HD.

Try the bootable Antivirus floppy first, and run an inspection of HD1.

The reason for the "new" hard drive is so that you do not lose what files you have on HD2. Due to the virus that is presently in your system. A "new" hard drive will of course be virus free.

Your main concern should be the recovery of the files on HD1.

With HD2 you can be operational on Tuesday, but you will have lost over 80% of your files.