Hello,
I have a problem booting XP, I had trouble with some virus' last night and after running various security tools I couldnt delete them, I tried safe mode but when I came to delete them windows wouldnt or the virus would restart my machine and close ad-aware or edwido after hours of fighting with this I tried manually deleting the files ad-aware and edwido pointed too with no luck, in the end I tried a reboot but now windows wont start at all.
I have linux on the same HDD and it loads as far as the linux boot manager, I can load linux no probs but when I select windows my computer restarts and I go through the cycle again, I have tried "last known good" and "safe mode" as well as bootcfg /rebuild in the recovery console with no luck also.
Is there a way I can boot my PC with my laptop via ethernet? or is there any other way I can reboot or fix my PC, I know a complete re-install will work but It has to be my last option as there is data on my PC that I need (course work & pictures of female body builders of course
) and I could do with either getting the data from the drive some how.
Any ideas what I can try?
Thanks
Mike
EDIT: I am trying chkdsk /p /r in console now and its on 50% so maybe that will help although I am not to confident it will, I know Linux and XP use different file system but could I use linux some how to reboot or retrieve some of the stuff on my XP partition? I know that very unlikely but you never know.
I have a problem booting XP, I had trouble with some virus' last night and after running various security tools I couldnt delete them, I tried safe mode but when I came to delete them windows wouldnt or the virus would restart my machine and close ad-aware or edwido after hours of fighting with this I tried manually deleting the files ad-aware and edwido pointed too with no luck, in the end I tried a reboot but now windows wont start at all.
I have linux on the same HDD and it loads as far as the linux boot manager, I can load linux no probs but when I select windows my computer restarts and I go through the cycle again, I have tried "last known good" and "safe mode" as well as bootcfg /rebuild in the recovery console with no luck also.
Is there a way I can boot my PC with my laptop via ethernet? or is there any other way I can reboot or fix my PC, I know a complete re-install will work but It has to be my last option as there is data on my PC that I need (course work & pictures of female body builders of course
) and I could do with either getting the data from the drive some how. Any ideas what I can try?
Thanks
Mike
EDIT: I am trying chkdsk /p /r in console now and its on 50% so maybe that will help although I am not to confident it will, I know Linux and XP use different file system but could I use linux some how to reboot or retrieve some of the stuff on my XP partition? I know that very unlikely but you never know.
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