Grrrrrrr.. dang , can not even get to Bios at all ?
Can't boot up or restore after virus
- 04 Dec 2011 #21
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- 04 Dec 2011 #22My System Specs
Re: Can't boot up or restore after virus
I *did* get it to go to Edit Boot Options. Right now, it says Path:\Windows\system32\winload.exe Partition 1 Hard disk: 82df5b34 [/TESTSIGNING/NOEXECUTE=OPTIN IN/MINT]
- 04 Dec 2011 #23My System Specs
Re: Can't boot up or restore after virus
Not sure where I should go from there.
- 04 Dec 2011 #24
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Join Date : Oct 2011 Central Florida in a small town Posts : 2,174 Vista Home Basic. 32 bit SP 2 Local Time: 06:51 PM
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I am getting stumped , if you cannot change the Bios ,and it will not boot a bootable cd/dvd. I have no further clues, cept to say, that hard drive musta taken a dump . If i come up with something i will post it .
- 04 Dec 2011 #25My System Specs
Re: Can't boot up or restore after virus
LOL that is certainly one way of putting it.
Thank you again for all of your help. I really do appreciate it.
- 04 Dec 2011 #26
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Hey, if you can make this and try to enter that hard drive : Use Ubuntu Live CD to Backup Files from Your Dead Windows Computer - How-To Geek
That is only thing i got left for now.. sorry. but, if you can get that to enter the hard drive , then you will see files on the hard drive, give that tutorial a looking at and see if you can use it.
- 04 Dec 2011 #27My System Specs
Re: Can't boot up or restore after virus
I'll have him stop and get some blank cd's to save that to tomorrow. I actually got it to where when loading, I hit alt F10 and was able to get the CD to start up. Started going through installation (got super excited) and when it got to Where do you want to install Windows, I chose Disk 0 Partition 1 (total size 298.1 Free space 94.1GB) Disk 0 Partition 2 has 1.0M with 0.0M free. It came up as saying Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation. And it won't let me go any further than that.
- 04 Dec 2011 #28My System Specs
Re: Can't boot up or restore after virus
Oh, wait...I clicked on Options and it brought up the option to Format. Warning: If you format this partition, all data stored on it will be permanently deleted. At this point, my husband knows he's going to have to dump everything on here and start from scratch. (He recently backed up his important files *music, pictures, etc* on an external hard drive) So......should I?
- 04 Dec 2011 #29
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Back up everything you can .
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