Re-installing W2K after a failed dual boot

I have just recovered from a virus attack and have lost my installation of W2k in a dual boot set-up. When I try now to reload W2K I get an errror "cannot write or read to drive C ". Do I need to re-install W98 as well?
Is there anything special about re-installing W2K after a dual-boot system failure?
The old W2K was installed on a separate disk in its own partition
Any advice appreciated
David

 

My feeling with a failure from a virus attack that was severe enough to destroy an OS would be that the only safe option here is to scrub the PC, remove existing partitions, repartition, and start over.

I think that you would be spending lots of time to try to rehab a system that wouldn't be trustworthy even if you were able to get it working again.

 

re-installing W2K etc

Thanks for the advice Newt. But things may not be quite THAT bad! (wishful thinking?) It might have been myy recovery process that destroyed the OS. To get my MBR to see that W2K was not on C, I had to repair it with my 2-month old Norton Basic Rescue disk. I made this before partitioning D. Consquently it restored the MBR to no longer see E (which is where W2K was).
My NAV log says the virus was 'Backdoor'.
Do you still think I should scrap the computer?
David

 

David - all I can tell you is that if it were my PC, I would back up what I wanted (personal files, address book, etc.) and then wipe the system and start over again. Repartition, format, install.

If you need data and can't otherwise get to a drive, www.sysinternals.com make a number of great utilities and one of them has a free version will allow you to use a working NT machine to copy data from a 'dead' drive on another NT machine as long as the drive isn't physically destroyed. If you only have the one PC you may need to borrow one for the recovery process though.

 

Too drastic. W98 stays for time being

I don't really need W2K THAT badly -- I just wanted to try it while keeping my W98. This is still working as well as it ever did (including read/write to C), so W2K will have to wait. When I need to destroy everything (such as when I eventually pass on the computer to someone else), I'll then follow your wisdom.
Thank you for helping me decide what to do.
David