OK- Good to see things are finally progressing for ya!! :)

Oh, going back to the VIRUS part of your prob - You can attampt to reslove this by downloading HJTsetup.exe (http://www.thespykiller.co.uk/downloads/HJTsetup.exe) from maybe another PC onto a CD.

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OK - You do get some BIOS which will only boot from a master drive. Try disabling the HDD as a boot option (depending on your BIOS settings).

Do you know what motherboard you have e.g. ASUS M2N68?

OK - frustrating I bet!!

The usual culprit of the above, is an issue with physical memory e.g. the OR one memory stick is bad. However it can also be caused by a malfunctioning HD, an improperly...

"issue 1..
i had deleted the host file as i was mis informed by a different forum to do so."

Be very careful when deleting files!! Always backup!

Now that you have created a new HOST file, I...

"I don't have a Windows 98 CD, I was using a Windows XP CD"

Sorry I should have said XP!!! My Bad!

When you say "When I'm prompted to " PRESS ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM CD" , nothing happends" does...

Just a thought, but if you are being redirected you may want to check the HOST file on your PC. Should look something like:

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS...

Main reasons for "NTLDR is missing" are:

> Computer is booting from a non-bootable source.
> Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file.
> Corrupt boot sector / master boot record.
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