On 10/29/2012 02:41 PM, Andrew Z wrote:
> since the weather is perfect t for drinking and catching up on all the
> little things that ive been procrastinated to do, i decided to revive
> the virus ridden laptop.
> That's some "alienware" from Dell . it doesn't have a cd/dvd . So the
> only option is to boot from usb stick.
>
> i have win7 iso and followed http://reboot.pro/8381/.
> yet the only result on the screen i see is "SYSLINUX 4.02 20120 .... "
> and black screen.
>
> Anything i need to be aware of ?
>
> Any feedback is welcomed.
> AZ
>

Hi Andrew,

I do not know about the usb stick thing, but have
you thought of borrowing someone's USB external
DVD drive?

Also, if you have a boot sector virus and you intend
to wipe anyway, this always works for me:

     THIS WILL RUIN YOUR PARTITION TABLE and all your data!

Boot off a live CD:

     dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 count=100

I have had to do this just to get the Windows Installer
(XP and W7) to recognize a hard drive that had a boot
sector virus several times.  (Live CD rescues Windows yet
again!)

-T