jhp@apss.ab.ca (Herb Presley, Emergency Planning Officer) (01/03/91)
I have had a problem with the "Stoned" virus on my 8088 based XT.
After the virus appeared on Christmas Day, I reformatted (high level)
the hard drive and reconfigured the partition table using FDISK.
Although the message appeared on Christmas Day, the only problem that
my PC seemed to develop was the inability to load RAMDRIVE.SYS at
bootup. Reconfiguring the partition table and reformatting the hard
drive do not seem to have helped RAMDRIVE.SYS to load.
I'm not even sure if the problems are related.
When I bootup, the error message appears:
RAMDRIVE.SYS:Insufficient memory
Remember that the RAMDRIVE.SYS load worked prior to the appearance of the
"Stoned" virus. I didn't change any parameters prior to that time.
I use MS-DOS 3.31. Reloading a fresh copy of RAMDRIVE.SYS from the
original system disks does not have seemed to help either.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
I would appreciate either email replies or postings if the information
is of more general interest.
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