Win98SE after boot nothing accessible. Ginh

edited September 2005 in Nerdery
Hey all this i've got another problem with my Windows 98 SE, and this time it's another variant. This is what happened.

I was surfing the Internet with my IE, it was a link that redirected me to an other site this site i got redirected to was a naughty site(one which i can't remember yet) so it started to load some crap on my computer so something was busy either connecting or dropping things on my drive i couldn't do anything, after this when i pressed "Ctrl+alt+del" is saw a bunch of names called popups there was many, then i think it continued making these, eventually my system mentioned there wasn't enough resources so it got jammed, then i rebooted my system and i believe things were altered as it was saying in dos that changes are loaded to the registry i believe. So after this part of the reboot i was able to get in windows, ones it was all done loading i couldnt do anything, my mouse and keyboard did work.

- Mouse: was able to move but not able to click on start or anywhere for that matter on desktop

- Keyboard: it works couldn't only make this menu popup with "ctrl+alt+del"

Then it said a few times ( after couple boots ) that Explorer was not reacting
so then i got this blue screen that asked if i wanted to reboot or leave it to see if resources free or something so i could return to windows.. so i booted again. and the same thing happend over and over.

Now i have done a test using my bootdisk, viewing my harddisk C: drive and the rest of the partitions, at this point i felt misserable thinking everything is destroyed, but i used commands to view a couple of folders on my C drive and partitions and all the files seem to be there, i just don't know if that's also when i would be in windows again.

So now i cannot do anything because i lack the knowledge how to handle this
Im sure i cannot do anything when im in windows, so it makes alot of sense that something needs to be done in MS-DOS or something, using either a CD or disk i do not know.

But please, could you guys give me any suggestion or solution if it may sound familiar, sorry i can't give more specific details because it went all to fast, also sorry if this is posted in wrong forum.

I'm desperated but learned a great deal this time, and will make sure i have stuff to make me some good backups and use of protection, gotten sick of it.

Hope to hear from you guys soon,

Greetz,

Ginh.

Comments

  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited September 2005
    Boot from the CD or Emergency Disk(s) for your Antivirus program and run a scan from there.

    Which Antivirus software do you use? :)
  • edited September 2005
    profdlp wrote:
    Boot from the CD or Emergency Disk(s) for your Antivirus program and run a scan from there.

    Which Antivirus software do you use? :)

    Hello prof,

    Emergency Disk i do not have, meaning i don't have a real antivirus program. just spyware removal programs, Htj, adaware, search & destroy..so i think this is not an option right?

    So i think the only way is boot from CD :s

    So, ones i find my Win98SE CD and boot windows from there, what would be the next step ?

    PS, what i mentioned in the post above, does that mean my files are all gone ?
    I did check in ms-dos and they were there, or could it still be shown in ms-dos but when you are actually back in windos they are gone ? o.O


    I would like to understand what was going on.

    Thx in advance,

    Ginh
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