XP won't boot, even in safe mode.
Hi Guys
I had a virus on my computer I think it was called 'total security' or something like that. I searched the internet and found it was a real git to remove but did find that I could stop it's process form the task manager (it could be identified by some random numbers then .exe). So that's what I did for a few weeks.
Unfortunately now however when I turn my machine on it goes to the screen where you can choose which mode to boot in (safe mode etc) but whichever 1 I choose it won't boot up. If I choose 1 of the safe mode options it puts up a load of text about drivers then a blue screen flashes up and it restarts. if I boot in normal mode, the XP logo comes up, the bar scrolls across underneath and then the blue screen flashes and it restarts.
I don't have an xp recovery disc but I tried downloading ubuntu, burnt a disc and tried booting it with that but it won't boot from the CD even though I pressed f2 and went into the setup to set the cd-rom as the first option to boot from!?! I don't know how to and don't really want to have to format the computer as I have docs, photo''s and songs that I'd like to get off.
Sorry for the long post, I was just trying to give as much info as possible. I would really appreciate any help any body could give me...
Thanks in advance
I had a virus on my computer I think it was called 'total security' or something like that. I searched the internet and found it was a real git to remove but did find that I could stop it's process form the task manager (it could be identified by some random numbers then .exe). So that's what I did for a few weeks.
Unfortunately now however when I turn my machine on it goes to the screen where you can choose which mode to boot in (safe mode etc) but whichever 1 I choose it won't boot up. If I choose 1 of the safe mode options it puts up a load of text about drivers then a blue screen flashes up and it restarts. if I boot in normal mode, the XP logo comes up, the bar scrolls across underneath and then the blue screen flashes and it restarts.
I don't have an xp recovery disc but I tried downloading ubuntu, burnt a disc and tried booting it with that but it won't boot from the CD even though I pressed f2 and went into the setup to set the cd-rom as the first option to boot from!?! I don't know how to and don't really want to have to format the computer as I have docs, photo''s and songs that I'd like to get off.
Sorry for the long post, I was just trying to give as much info as possible. I would really appreciate any help any body could give me...
Thanks in advance
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If your hardware is healthy, you should be able to boot off a CD, whether its a Linux boot disk, or Windows install disk. You might try a manual system restore. You boot off an install disk, then do a system restore by copying a good registry to system32\config. Read about it here. I know it's long, but I've done this one a lot.