STOP 0x7B after CD repair
This is about my friend's computer and I have to fix it tomorrow. I was searching everywhere on the Internet to find a definite solution, but couldn't find any. The problem may result from drivers, boot sector viruses etc. Here's what happened: A few days ago his computer became unresponsive: upon turning on Windows XP Pro would start normally and the startup screen with blue lights running would display normally for 10-15 seconds, but it would then go black and restart before getting to the Welcome screen. I used WinXP CD recovery console to find C:\Windows\tmp94535.bat (not sure about the numbers). It was created on the day computer crashed and it contained instructions to delete svchost.ex_, lsass.ex_, winlogon.ex_, services.ex_, explorer.ex_ and something called %0 (zero, not O). I renamed it. I went through system32 and found an EXE whose name contained, I think, 12-16 garbled lowercase characters and numbers. It was about 33 KB big if I recall correctly. I renamed it, too. I tried to expand the files from CD, but it didn't work (the computer would start up to a black screen with a WGA notice in the bottom right and then restart. Afterwards I tried repairing the installation. I had something important to do so I left my friend to look for the product key and click Next. A few hours later he phoned me and said some COM+ setup error had occured but he pressed OK and that the computer now starts up with a BSOD:
STOP 0x7B (F7C4AB08, C0000034, 00000000, 00000000)
Edit: I want to keep the information if it's possible. If it's a boot sector virus, would installing Windows on the second hard disk (not partition) allow computer to operate normally at least until the data can be backed up?
STOP 0x7B (F7C4AB08, C0000034, 00000000, 00000000)
Edit: I want to keep the information if it's possible. If it's a boot sector virus, would installing Windows on the second hard disk (not partition) allow computer to operate normally at least until the data can be backed up?
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