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WinBIOS Setup
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Anti-Virus
Double-click this icon and a list box appears, allowing you to
enable or disable the Virus Protection feature. When Enabled
the BIOS issues a warning when any program or virus sends a
Disk Format command or tries to write to the boot sector of a
hard disk drive.
Formatting the Hard Disk Drive
You should not enable anti-virus protection when formatting a
hard disk drive.
The DOS hard disk Format utility does not use INT 13h
function AH=05h to format the hard disk. It only verifies the
hard disk using the INT 13h Verify function (AH=04h). The
virus warning message is not displayed during DOS hard disk
drive formatting.
If the anti-virus feature is enabled, a virus warning message is
displayed when you attempt to format the hard disk drive.
If you select Continue, formatting proceeds as normal. If you do
not want to continue formatting, you may have to press N
several times (depending on how many retries are performed
by the upper-level software% DOS, for example, does at least
five retries before the Format utility is actually aborted.
