Ryan Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Alright, so I came home from school today to find my mom half pissed off because she found out her computer had virus on it. I tried to help her with it but I'm having some problems. She wants me to install XP for her, but whenever I put the boot CD into the DVD drive and restart the PC, I can never get it to boot from the CD. It just continues on into XP's normal boot setup and then goes all crazy with porn and sh*t due to the virus. I went into the BIOS and set the boot order so that the DVD Drive was to boot before the HDD, but still to luck. The same thing happens. I've installed XP several times before without problems. Every time it booted right from the CD without any problems but I'm stumped here. Any help is much appreciated. Also, how do I go about deleting the old partition of XP that's f*cked up with the virus? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434417-windows-xp-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star-Lord Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Leave the CD in the tray and reboot your computer. Before it loads Manufacturer Logo immediately start tapping the space bar continuously until you get prompt to run off CD. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434417-windows-xp-problem/?do=findComment&comment=1059667000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf68k Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Are you sure it's a virus? Have you tried to remove whatever the problem is? You're not even gonna try to back you any pictures, music, videos, emails, whatever else first? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434417-windows-xp-problem/?do=findComment&comment=1059667095 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted December 3, 2009 Author Share Posted December 3, 2009 When she runs AVG, it gets brings up over 100 files that are infected. Whenever she tries to remove the infected files the computer then just displays a black screen with a whole bunch of error messages. I'm also pretty sure it's a virus as she unplugged the ethernet cable and she still gets all these porn sites that open them selves without the internet even being connected. Usally after about 10 minutes, the computer always restarts it's self as well. She said she managed to get back ups of all her pictures. I don't think she had anything else too important. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434417-windows-xp-problem/?do=findComment&comment=1059667123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star-Lord Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Run AVG in safemode man. You'll have better chances of removing the viruses. Reboot and press the F8 key and select Safe Mode once on your desktop run AVG. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434417-windows-xp-problem/?do=findComment&comment=1059667160 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spuds725 Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 this may help if you want to try and save the hard drive... I've done this Get an external hard drive enclosure that will accomodate the boot drive. Take out the boot drive and set it as a slave (or whatever the enclosure requires-- usually slave or cable select for PATA drives-- don't ask me about SATA). Boot up another machine and install a program called Malware bytes. plug in the external drive and scan/clean this drive. http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti...j=dl&tag=button You may be able to run it on the orginal machine in safe mode-- not sure. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434417-windows-xp-problem/?do=findComment&comment=1059671119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted December 5, 2009 Author Share Posted December 5, 2009 The problem is solved. She didn't trust me to reinstall XP for her, so she took it to the local PC shop and spent $150 for them to reinstall it for her. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434417-windows-xp-problem/?do=findComment&comment=1059671214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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