Boot Up Stalling at Verifying DMI Pool...Windows XP. YoYo Boot sector Virus??

I'm running XP Professional. My boot stalls at Verifying DMI Pool and then it says "Y鈭瀁鈭?quot; and doesn't boot further. Looks like a boot sector virus, and I can only see a handful of instances of others with this in a search of the web.

If I take this hard drive out and put a previous one in with another OS on it (XP, etc), will it boot up? Then if I can get it to boot, might I be able to scan the HD with XP on it and back up my files before wiping and reformatting and reinstalling XP? Or should I just try to do a repair on XP first?

My first time dealing with a boot sector virus in 7 years. I've always used Anti-viral products. If you can't throw money at this problem, why even bother with purchasing "protection?"... sorry last part is a rant, my original questions still are valid I hope!

Boot Up Stalling at Verifying DMI Pool...Windows XP. YoYo Boot sector Virus??viruses

On the off chance that it's NOT a virus, try putting the XP disk in the drive while you're booting. If it boots, you may have to edit the DMI.

I have this issue with one of my WIN2K machines, and short of spending a lot of time that I don't have right now figuring it out, I just leave the disk in the CDROM drive and it seems happy, although as I mentioned before, you probably going to have to edit the DMI.

Boot Up Stalling at Verifying DMI Pool...Windows XP. YoYo Boot sector Virus??antispam

I'm reachin', but I had one that'd hang at Welcome screen at final part of the set-up wizard in XP. Flashing BIOS fixed THAT problem. Perhaps it IS boot sector virus. Have you low-level formatted HDD? Some people even zero the drive too in case LLF didn't catch all the tables where a viruses lurk. Report It


if you can get to your BIOS, go to your boot order and make boot from cd first.

1 have widows cd in drive and hit boot from cd

2 when asked to repair or reinstall pick repair

3 when you come to command prompt type FIXBOOT then hit enter.

GL