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- From: 00tdboardman@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (Ted Boardman)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Fixed disk locked,Acros 486 Anti-Virus program the cause,solution?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.142545.13369@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 19:25:45 GMT
- Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's
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- I have a Acros IBM 486 compatible. While trying to install Norton Anti-Virus
- and Acros Anti-Virus, I've run into a few problems. The end result is that my
- fixed disk is locked, and it won't boot.
-
- The Norton Anti-Virus program installation was rough, and I finally gave up.
- It seems that a library it needs is stored in a ZIP archive on the disk, and is
- not uncompressed and installed on the hard disk where it belongs. I removed
- the Norton Anti-Virus program.
-
- Next, I ran the install utilitiy for the Acros Anti-Virus program. It went
- fine, but when I re-booted the machine, it notified me that the fixed disk
- would be locked to prevent read/write while it booted and ran the virus
- scanner. If no virus' was found, it was supposed to unlock the fixed disk.
- Well, as soon as it says the fixed disk is locked, it clears the screen, and
- the prompt just sits there, and a couple minutes later, it still hadn't done
- anything.
-
- It'd be thrilled just to remove the darn Acros Virus Scanner and take my
- chances, or even get ZIP and unZIP the file I need for Norton Anti-Virus, but
- as it is now, I can't even finish booting my computer.
-
- I can boot from a floppy, but I want it to boot from the hard disk like it used
- to. Anyone have some suggestions?
-
- E-mail would be best, because I don't keep up with these groups.
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