Help with my computer

associates · 01-03-2006, 05:12 AM

HI,

I was wondering if anyone would give me some advice here. My desktop computer is currently infected with viruses and spywares. I have attempted to remove them even to the point of going to the safemode and run both the antivirus and lavasoft adware. They were detected and already removed. But they still appeared again. I even went to run msconfig and disabled all other startup programs. But still the viruses were founded by norton antivirus. I have made sure that all the antivirus and adware are up to date in virus definition. But now i gave up. So what i'm trying to do is reformatting my hard disk. I put in the windows XP CD to the CDROM. Then, restarted the computer hoping that i could do it from there at the rebooting stage. However, everything went ok til the stage where i was asked to press anykey to continue installing or repair or quit. I pressed any key and the next screen was with the following message.

"Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer..."

Very strange, Why is it saying that since it could load up the windows XP OS?

But It's gone worse now. What i did was when rebooting the computer, i press SHIFT+F8 to go to Safemode, but instead of selecting Safemode, i selected the choce of "last known good configuration". Then, i went to load the windows. All i could see from the screen is just the background with nothing on the screen at all (No desktop icons). Furthermore, there is no START Button or TaskBar as what we usually see when the windows XP loaded up. What should I do now?

The reason i selected the last known good configuration was i thought since i was unable to reformat the harddisk, by going for that selection i could restore my computer to the stage where there was no viruses. I guess that's my mistake. I'm still learning.

The hard drive is seagate SATA. This computer was assembled by a friend of mine. Because it's cheaper to buy individual parts and assembled them all by ourselves
Thank you in advance and look forward to your help.

houssam_ballout · 01-03-2006, 07:40 AM

try to update ur BIOS

charly · 01-04-2006, 08:22 AM

Check your BIOS if drives are ready
use FDISK to destroy the structure of HD by setting other partitions, then try to install xp again
ALL DATAS ARE LOST USING FDISK!!!!

good luck, ciao

01-03-2006, 05:12 AM	#1 (permalink)
associates New Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 6	Help with my computer HI, I was wondering if anyone would give me some advice here. My desktop computer is currently infected with viruses and spywares. I have attempted to remove them even to the point of going to the safemode and run both the antivirus and lavasoft adware. They were detected and already removed. But they still appeared again. I even went to run msconfig and disabled all other startup programs. But still the viruses were founded by norton antivirus. I have made sure that all the antivirus and adware are up to date in virus definition. But now i gave up. So what i'm trying to do is reformatting my hard disk. I put in the windows XP CD to the CDROM. Then, restarted the computer hoping that i could do it from there at the rebooting stage. However, everything went ok til the stage where i was asked to press anykey to continue installing or repair or quit. I pressed any key and the next screen was with the following message. "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer. Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer..." Very strange, Why is it saying that since it could load up the windows XP OS? But It's gone worse now. What i did was when rebooting the computer, i press SHIFT+F8 to go to Safemode, but instead of selecting Safemode, i selected the choce of "last known good configuration". Then, i went to load the windows. All i could see from the screen is just the background with nothing on the screen at all (No desktop icons). Furthermore, there is no START Button or TaskBar as what we usually see when the windows XP loaded up. What should I do now? The reason i selected the last known good configuration was i thought since i was unable to reformat the harddisk, by going for that selection i could restore my computer to the stage where there was no viruses. I guess that's my mistake. I'm still learning. The hard drive is seagate SATA. This computer was assembled by a friend of mine. Because it's cheaper to buy individual parts and assembled them all by ourselves Thank you in advance and look forward to your help.

01-03-2006, 07:40 AM	#2 (permalink)
houssam_ballout Diamond Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: here Age: 22 Posts: 1,009	try to update ur BIOS __________________ TechNoloGy ConTrols tHe World AnD I conTroL the TecHnOl0gy Gue$s WhO @m i. HehEhehee :confused:

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01-04-2006, 08:22 AM	#3 (permalink)
charly Silver Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: austria Age: 47 Posts: 158	Check your BIOS if drives are ready use FDISK to destroy the structure of HD by setting other partitions, then try to install xp again ALL DATAS ARE LOST USING FDISK!!!! good luck, ciao