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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: MrPipps on June 03, 2008, 08:40:33 PM
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Hello.
Quick question if I may - before I dive headlong into an attempted system recovery:
I have a laptop running XP. I would like to boot Recovery Console from a USB floppy drive using the download Microsoft boot discs.
I would just like to check, and ask for your approval, of whether booting recovery console from the floppies, would the following recovery console commands to work?
Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
Restart the computer from the CD-ROM drive.
Press R to start the Recovery Console when the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears.
Select the installation that you want to access from the Recovery Console.
Enter the administrator password and press Enter.
Type cd System
Press Enter
Type del ntos.exe
Press Enter
Type cd wsnpoem
Press Enter
Type del audio.dll
Press Enter
Type del video.dll
Press Enter
Type exit
Press Enter. The computer will now restart automatically.
(From this page (http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007-040208-5335-99&tabid=3).)
For background info, the reason for needing to run Recovery Console in this way, is because my system is infected with the ntos.exe virus, which my fully registered and up to date Zonealarm Security Suite did not recognise on entry and still doesn't identify on a full scan, and I am also in the unique and impoverished position of not having a functional CD-ROM drive in my laptop, and so am only able to use a USB floppy drive!
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I dont know if you will be able to boot from the usb port/anyhting connected to it. newer computers have this option in bios but if your computer is more than a couple of years oldit prob wont have it.
the other opetion is to replace the cd drive
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A couple? I have computers 4 and 5 years old and they have "enable legacy usb support" in the bios.
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The BIOS on my machine definitely doesn't have the 'boot from external drive' option, but I certain it has the legacy usb driver support.
Is that not standard within the discovery console drivers package?
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Another option would be to Clik Here (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html) and have one of our Malware Removal Specialists have a looksee...
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Thanks for all the help, guys.
I think I will do this first:
the other opetion is to replace the cd drive
Then, do that:
Another option would be to Clik Here (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html) and have one of our Malware Removal Specialists have a looksee...
Thanks again! :)
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Thanks for all the help, guys.
I think I will do this first:
the other opetion is to replace the cd drive
Then, do that:
Another option would be to Clik Here (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html) and have one of our Malware Removal Specialists have a looksee...
Thanks again! :)
You may want to do this the other way around....check with one of the Malware Removal Specialists first. You may not have to buy a new CD drive.
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Thanks for all the help, guys.
I think I will do this first:
the other opetion is to replace the cd drive
Then, do that:
Another option would be to Clik Here (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html) and have one of our Malware Removal Specialists have a looksee...
Thanks again! :)
You may want to do this the other way around....check with one of the Malware Removal Specialists first. You may not have to buy a new CD drive.
You are absolutely right! Great thinking! I will definitely proceed in the reverse order to the above. Thanks :)