Viruses

This section describes two problems that are caused by viruses.

Several boot sector viruses can cause the processor to stop after the Blue Screen appears showing the Windows NT version. The error is:

Stop 0x0000007B

Inaccessible_boot_device

Scan with a good virus scanner if this occurs.

The second problem occurred when trying to upgrade from Windows NT 3.5 to 3.51. Upon rebooting, there was an additional entry in BOOT.INI that displays "Windows NT 3.51 installation/upgrade" and will start in 5 seconds. NTLDR entered in an endless loop of displaying BOOT.INI and restarting.

The solution was to run the latest version of f-prot, which, at the time, was 2.16 dated 2/2/95.