URGENT! Error loading operating system! HELP! PLEASE!

[JeremyA]

Ok so recently my uncle was over, and well he's one of those..."people"
Well anyways...

Apparently some type of virus completely screwed my laptop over. Its a Dell Inspiron 8100 running windows XP. Well everytime I boot it it goes through the whole press F2 to enter setup thing then it goes to "Error loading operating system_"

I have no idea what to do. The CD's I have are:

1.) Re-installation CD. Microsoft Windows XP home edition (Wont work on boot)
2.) Drivers utilities and applications (for reinstalling Dell inspiron 8100 system software) But this CD does nothing.


I created a floppy boot disk, I got it to boot a network drive, as a d:\ but then I am EXTREMELY unfamiliar with MS-DOS. I tried "Format c:" but it only cam out with "C: does not support format, action terminated" or w.e

PLEASE help me. As I need this for school! Ive been working on this stupid thing for quite a while now. Cant afford to buy a new one or send it in for repairs. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance

[Leonardo]

Jeremy, I feel for you. I guess password protected accounts are do for future relative visits.

This looks to be pretty bad, we'll get you help. Frankly, I don't know whether to start with Windows re-installation or malware cleaning. Is there valuable data on the subject computer?