PC Wants to format on boot

[palexander]

My father-in-law's PC has started to boot (win 2000) into windows, but before the desktop loads, it opens a DOS screen with a Format command.

Never, ever seen this... if you close the window, the PC hangs. Sounds like a virus, but dont know how to remove it (safe mode does the same).

Anyone have any ideas apart from rebuilding it?

Cheers, Paul

 

[The 4th man]

Boot up from your anti virus rescue or saftey disk (what ever its called !)

Or make one from another pc (uninfected !).

It does sounds like a virus , but not one ive come across .
(or some wags created a script and put it in the startup section of windows . Mind you its odd that the format commands not running ? I would have thought a virus wouldnt give you choice and would just run , leaving you to watch as it deletes your hard drive

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