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windows freezes after boot up
Name: danny Date: October 19, 2003 at 10:11:08 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
It seems I have gotten a trojan virus and was detected, I went on to shut down system restore and was disinfected with panda virus scan follow by rebooting. But then it starts to made grinding/buzzing Hard drive sounds as if trying to read a sector on the drive C. Reran Panda antivirus and it's clean. Went on and did a trial with Mc.afee and it's also clean! went to norton and did a scan. It found not a virus but a script on c:\windows\system32\-embed but cant seem to locate it in system32. Reformatted the whole pc into ntfs and reloaded all the needed drivers. Now my pc freezes at the main screen after boot up. Please help. Much thanks in advance.
Name: cygnus Date: October 19, 2003 at 10:18:01 Pacific
Reply:
You must be reinstall your XP with clean installation.
:)cygnus
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Response Number 2
Name: danny Date: October 19, 2003 at 10:24:39 Pacific
Reply:
Cygnus, Fast reply. I thought full formatting C was a good enough and start new again. Please elaborate.
Thanks
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Response Number 3
Name: soundtrax Date: October 19, 2003 at 10:37:21 Pacific
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This is my advice : When I had probs with my XP, I have to back up my data. Then I try to delete NTFS partition from Win98 bootable CD and make it to FAT 32. After that inserted my XP CD to CD Drive and let it go and I have no probs again until now.
Hope helpful
:) cygnus
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Response Number 4
Name: Romero Date: October 20, 2003 at 05:13:53 Pacific
Reply:
Before u try to reinstall give a shot for repairing ur XP using the operating system CD and pressing the option "R". This brings up the recovery console to fix or replace the missing os system files. This can help......
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