Gg_mf
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Help please... I think my other computer may have a virus. It started acting all funny and going really slow. So i tried re starting it and now it wont switch on. It just has a black screen with a little curser in the top telling me to control,alt & delete and then it just returns back to the black screen. I dont know what to do with it, I have just unplugged it and left it. I havent opened or downloaded any thing unusual. 
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Reedy
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format and reinstall windows.
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Gg_mf
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How do I do that ? Its just it wont let me do anything
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Reedy
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Originally posted by Gg_mf
How do I do that ? Its just it wont let me do anything
do you have anything you need to back up? if not then put your windows disc in and restart your machine it should then boot off the disc and you can reinstall winodws from the onscreen options. Remember reinstallings windows will mean that you will loose all data.
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Liam
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You need to set-up your BIOS so that it boots from a CD, then stick your XP disc in, follow the insructions, delete the partition, then create a new 1, then its just follow the instructions until its installed.
*Deleting the partition will delete EVERYTHING from your hard-drive*
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Reedy
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Originally posted by LiamD
You need to set-up your BIOS so that it boots from a CD, then stick your XP disc in, follow the insructions, delete the partition, then create a new 1, then its just follow the instructions until its installed.
*Deleting the partition will delete EVERYTHING from your hard-drive*
Actually, you dont need to delete the partition, you can just go over the top of the partition. As it will just format the partition and so you wont have to create a new one then.
Also the first boot device should already be setup as cd first.
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Gg_mf
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Originally posted by Reedy
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Originally posted by Gg_mf
How do I do that ? Its just it wont let me do anything
do you have anything you need to back up? if not then put your windows disc in and restart your machine it should then boot off the disc and you can reinstall winodws from the onscreen options. Remember reinstallings windows will mean that you will loose all data.
All I have is my itunes . Would I loose all my songs? I will give that a try. Thanks
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Reedy
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all songs and everything you ever know wil be gone.
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Gg_mf
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i guess there aint another way around it? all my songs are on my ipod..if i did this would i be able to plug my ipod back in an transfer them back to the computer somehow...
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Reedy
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i guess there aint another way around it? all my songs are on my ipod..if i did this would i be able to plug my ipod back in an transfer them back to the computer somehow...
yes
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Gg_mf
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cheers thanks very much you are a life saver.
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abdus
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how do you know it's a virus? it might be you deleted some inportant files...why not try the xp restore cd 1st
[Edited on 19-06-2006 by abdus]
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Reedy
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how do you know it's a virus? it might be you deleted some inportant files...why not try the xp restore cd 1st
[Edited on 19-06-2006 by abdus]
restoring is for gayes.
Its always best to do a fresh install then atleast any crap which has been put on the machine ( as there will always be some, somewhere ) will be gone and so a good format and reinstall will sort that problemo out.
If you have important data that needed backing up i would of then recommended the restore disc and then once the data is backed up then format and reinstall.
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Gg_mf
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Originally posted by abdus
how do you know it's a virus? it might be you deleted some inportant files...why not try the xp restore cd 1st
[Edited on 19-06-2006 by abdus]
I dont know what I did to be honest. It just went vey weird and slow and then it wouldnt load anything. then when i switched it on it wouldnt come on
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abdus
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quote:
Originally posted by Reedy
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Originally posted by abdus
how do you know it's a virus? it might be you deleted some inportant files...why not try the xp restore cd 1st
[Edited on 19-06-2006 by abdus]
restoring is for gayes.
If you have important data that needed backing up i would of then recommended the restore disc and then once the data is backed up then format and reinstall.
so restoring isnt for 'gayes' after all...
my point...to try and retrieve his music or any important info and then format
Yes, I format my pc and make a fresh install every 2-3 months
[Edited on 19-06-2006 by abdus]
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Gg_mf
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ok cheers ill see what i can do after work. I just want to try and sort it out without loosing all my stuff.
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Reedy
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Yeah so really you should never really need to restore windows then if you format once every 2-3 months.
All i do is have a ghost image of my main partition and reghost when windows it being gay.
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Gg_mf
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Havent had a chance yet to find my recovery disks. The error message that comes up is 'Disk read error occured, press cntrl,alt,dlt' does this msg mean anything to anyone?
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