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SkalariaK

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Oh My God... Incredibly Evil Virus PLEASE HELP
« on: July 16, 2007, 04:55:19 PM »
Ok, well yesterday night whilst I was on MSN Messenger.. and suddenly the internet stopped working although Windows Vista said it was online.... so I tried opening Windows Media Player to listen to some music from my library and I got an error message saying "wmplayer.exe not found" followed by various messages saying that "explorer.exe" not found and others which I cannot remember.... So I thought best thing to do would be restarting the computer.. as soon as I clicked on restart I got a message saying "SystemUI.exe not found" followed by a blue screen... Now each time I boot before I even have a chance to press F8 it tells me Boot\BCD not found and restarts.... constantly.

I can assume the OS has been destroyed but I suspect my personal files are still there so I tried creating a bootable version of Windows XP on my UFD using BartPE on annother computer.... although my BIOS is configured properly and I follow all steps completely the computer refuses to boot the UFD....

Windows Repair is not an option as my DVD-RW drive is bust and IT IS a laptop... I got an external DVD-RW but I have it in my other house in annother country. 

Annother problem is the fact that I cannot get it repaired in any shop due to the high costs of the service (all wanted €200 or more) which I cannot afford....


Any help please?????


Extra Info:
OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic
Antivirus: AVG Free + AVG AntiRootkit
AntiSpyware: Windows Deffender + AVG AntiSpyware
Firewall: Windows Firewall
RAM: 1024 (128 Graphics) CPU: AMD Turion 64 X2 (1.6GHz)
HDD: 100GB GFX: nVidea GeForce Go! 6150

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Re: Oh My God... Incredibly Evil Virus PLEASE HELP
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2007, 05:54:29 PM »
Did you try using the floppy you made on another good machine? If it works on a good 'puter then you really have no other option than replacing the broke DVD-R/W-do you?
 

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Re: Oh My God... Incredibly Evil Virus PLEASE HELP
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2007, 07:51:46 PM »
What is it you want to accomplish here...
Retrieve your data ?
Repair install so you can use the machine ?
A clean start ?
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SkalariaK

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Re: Oh My God... Incredibly Evil Virus PLEASE HELP
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2007, 07:56:10 PM »
What is it you want to accomplish here...
Retrieve your data ?
Repair install so you can use the machine ?
A clean start ?

Most importantly retrieving my data.... I know how to do a clean start.

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Re: Oh My God... Incredibly Evil Virus PLEASE HELP
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2007, 02:16:05 PM »
I would hook up that drive as a slave in a working machine...run a virus scan on the drive, actually all your protection apps...you have a well balanced arsenal there BTW.

Then copy/burn the data you need from that HDD and do a full format on it.

It should then be clean enough for a clean install.

p,s. You may want to add AdAware and Spybot to your package...

p.s.s. Before copying /using any of that data on the new build re-scan the CD just in case.
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SkalariaK

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Re: Oh My God... Incredibly Evil Virus PLEASE HELP
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2007, 03:28:31 PM »
I would hook up that drive as a slave in a working machine...run a virus scan on the drive, actually all your protection apps...you have a well balanced arsenal there BTW.

Then copy/burn the data you need from that HDD and do a full format on it.

It should then be clean enough for a clean install.

p,s. You may want to add AdAware and Spybot to your package...

p.s.s. Before copying /using any of that data on the new build re-scan the CD just in case.

That is exactly the problem.... it is a laptop >_<

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Re: Oh My God... Incredibly Evil Virus PLEASE HELP
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2007, 04:40:34 PM »
Then grab one of these...

       

About 10 bucks at any computer store...lets you connect a laptop HDD to any desktop machine with an available IDE connection.

Handy for quicker backups as well.
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SkalariaK

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Re: Oh My God... Incredibly Evil Virus PLEASE HELP
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2007, 06:36:53 AM »
Then grab one of these...

       

About 10 bucks at any computer store...lets you connect a laptop HDD to any desktop machine with an available IDE connection.

Handy for quicker backups as well.

I never knew that existed... I'll go to PC World and to the small shop next 2 my house later to find out if they got them.

Thank you so much you are a real life saver =)

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Re: Oh My God... Incredibly Evil Virus PLEASE HELP
« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2007, 07:19:22 PM »
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