[AAABEST]

Virus in the boot sector.

You can try going to DOS and typing "FDISK /MBR". Sometimes that will take care of a corrupt master boot record.

[jude24]

That, or delete the partition. Theres a little program out there called "delpart."

2 years ago, Office 2k had an undocumented bug that really trashed my system when the install crashed. Only way I could fix it was to delete the partition and reinstall the OS from scratch.

[tictoc]

You can try going to DOS and typing "FDISK /MBR".

Thank you.

How and when do I get to a DOS prompt? I hit the F8 key during Windows 2000 bootup sequence, attempting to get "Secure Mode with Prompt", but did not get a DOS prompt that way.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

after that, i suggested he write zeroes to the drive. gateway has a nice utility for doing that.