[Al Skierkiewicz]

Budda,
This does not entirely sound like a virus. You may have had a drive failure. How long have you had the computer? Do you run it a lot? Is there a wierd mechanical noise when you power on like the drive has bad bearings? Do you have any PCMCIA cards installed? Try taking those out and starting. You might also want to check that the CMOS setup has not changed so that it doesn't see your drive as the right size, sector, etc. I would also try making a boot disk on another computer with some DOS commands on it and see if you can read anything from the drive when you boot off the disk. If you can't see anything, then there might be a problem with the drive or the drive interface.
Al