Guest youshouldseemyrumbabox Posted August 19, 2008 Posted August 19, 2008 hi all firstly,need to say that i am okay but not overly tech savvy. windows has crashed and won't even boot in safe mode. am gettiing a load of errors that all begin with: multi(0)disk(0(rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\drivers think a trojan has skipped through windows defender and avg that i have loaded. will i have to reload windows to rectify the problem or is there another way around it? am assuming if i have to reload that all data will be lost??? thanks in advance, kylie x
Guest Jayarama Vytla Posted August 19, 2008 Posted August 19, 2008 Re: windows won't load Kylie, Try to repair with Windows XP setup disk. It will re-install all windows file. CAUTION: Don't select fresh installation it will format your Hard drive. Best Regards, Jay "youshouldseemyrumbabox" <youshouldseemyrumbabox@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EAD1728C-BADC-4C24-9FB4-6ACCF370733F@microsoft.com... > hi all > > firstly,need to say that i am okay but not overly tech savvy. > > windows has crashed and won't even boot in safe mode. am gettiing a load > of > errors that all begin with: > multi(0)disk(0(rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\drivers > > think a trojan has skipped through windows defender and avg that i have > loaded. > will i have to reload windows to rectify the problem or is there another > way > around it? am assuming if i have to reload that all data will be lost??? > > thanks in advance, > kylie x
Guest R. McCarty Posted August 19, 2008 Posted August 19, 2008 Re: windows won't load If you choose to reinstall, then yes all the personal data will be lost. What you decide to do depends mainly on what effort you're willing to invest in fixing your current setup. The error you list may indicate an issue with your Windows volume. If you have a Windows XP CD-ROM you may want to boot to the Recovery console and run a Chkdsk. As to whether it's a Trojan the symptoms don't indicate that. Most Trojans do not deliver a destructive payload that results in the PC not being able to boot. Hopefully your system is backed up, if not then you may want to try and recover your data before trying to fix XP. "youshouldseemyrumbabox" <youshouldseemyrumbabox@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EAD1728C-BADC-4C24-9FB4-6ACCF370733F@microsoft.com... > hi all > > firstly,need to say that i am okay but not overly tech savvy. > > windows has crashed and won't even boot in safe mode. am gettiing a load > of > errors that all begin with: > multi(0)disk(0(rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\drivers > > think a trojan has skipped through windows defender and avg that i have > loaded. > will i have to reload windows to rectify the problem or is there another > way > around it? am assuming if i have to reload that all data will be lost??? > > thanks in advance, > kylie x
Guest Plato Posted August 21, 2008 Posted August 21, 2008 Re: windows won't load =?Utf-8?B?eW91c2hvdWxkc2VlbXlydW1iYWJveA==?= wrote: > > think a trojan has skipped through windows defender and avg that i have > loaded. Many new trojans immediatly disable your anti-virus protection. Best bet in the future is NOT to download or install a trojan. It's all up to you, the user or your PC. -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
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