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If your friend got the dreaded boot sector virus, he is headed for trouble. The reason is because this virus will crash his hard drive. If he noticed something wrong with his computer and decided to restart his PC, with that virus in the boot sector, his computer just may not start up at all. The PC may crash or show an error message saying a virus has been detected, or no hard drive was found. [br][br]If this is his experience, he had better hope he made a backup or recovery disk, or create a boot disk for his antivirus program. Because what he will need to do now is boot from his CD-ROM drive with the bootable CD in the drive. The bootable CD will have a copy of the antivirus on it, so the antivirus program will engage, scan the hard drive, and destroy the virus on contact. Once the virus is destroyed, the operating system may need to be re-installed. This is where the recovery disks come into play. [br][br]If he is lucky, the hard drive would not be damaged. In this case, a re-install of the operating system may work. If the hard drive was ruined, then re-formatting the hard drive will need to be done first, followed by re-installing the operating system. [br][br]

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