Hi all, I run a Packard Bell 6810 SLI with a RAID HD, 2 GB RAM and 512 Mb SLI Nvidia Graphics.A couple of years ago I purchased Driver Detective but didn't use it, and lost it during a PC crash.A week ago I re-downloaded it and ran it on my laptop, a Fujitsu Siemens C Series Lifebook.Everything seemed to go well, so I moved on to my 6810.
I worked through the drivers till I came to Bluetooth.Zonealarm warned me that "WIDDCOMM" carried a suspected Trojan but I carried on and downloaded it.On restarting my PC, it just endlessly started and restarted - I would get the grey Packard Bell screen then the Windows XP black screen with the loading bar then shutdown and so on.I tapped F5 and tried every option, none of which worked, although when I clicked "Disable Restart" I got a blue screen with a message about system failure and a series of numbers."Recovery Mode" asked me a question then "Y/N" but I never know how to work this.
After thinking, I realised that D Drive had nothing on it so I decided to try installing Windows XP on it, and this worked.I found that I was able to extract my 3D train Simulator and "My Pictures" from C Drive and save them to a Mini Hard drive, so they are safe.On looking further it seems I may have deleted some important Drivers since there is a list of devices without Drivers.
The status quo at the moment is that my PC has C Drive with Windows XP Pro on it, but if I try to start XP Pro it simply restarts again and again.
If I select XP Home edition it starts normally , but in D Drive.
The PC will not connect to the Internet, so I spoke to my ISP ( Post Office) last night and the guy there said it would be a Master/Slave arrangement and the only answer would probably be to erase C Drive and re install Windows XP Pro on it.
I am unsure what to do.I know I can uninstall by reformatting C Drive but my knowledge ends there.
Any help gratefully appreciated.
P.S i have read various posts about Driver Detective here and suffice to say I won't be using it again.