Re: Is this a virus? Can I reinstall XP from a flash disk (my CD drive's broken)
- From: "Mike P" <privacy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 15:45:10 +0100
"Martin Burke" <mlburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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takise wrote:
U?ytkownik "kplumm" <kplumm@xxxxxxxxxxx> napisa? w wiadomo?ci
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I didn't at first assume this problem was started by a virus but am
at
least half sure it was now. My CD drive broke down and keyboard went
haywire. First the keyboard wouldn't react to h, 4, or 6 being
pressed, then whatever I typed it would keep acting as if I was
pressing ther Home key too. I tried all that enable DMA stuff with
the CD drive, which for a while was playing CDs but not DVDs, then
briefly played some DVDs before croaking altogether. It won't read a
CD-rom so I can't use my recovery disk. I laboriously copied that
onto a flash disk with my dad's Vista computer and have today tried
to
get things going that way. I've looked at the BIOs, which someone nw
tells me can have become messed up by a possible virus (should I be
able to access the CD/DVD drive settings using the BIOS? I can't).
I
have no money to get a professional to do this, and the manufacturers
themselves, Fujitsu-Siemens, want about 5 times as much money as any
local repairer. There's nowhere I can borrow and external CD drive
to
use the recovery disk, no floppy on the machine, and somehow I can't
format the C drive to get rid of the corrupted Windows, maybe that
was
one of the brave and intelligent things the virus program-writer
brought about. I have been able to get out these jams with Win 95
and
98 machines (reinstalling, I mean; they had not been in any situation
where a virus could have come into it). The machine takes an odd and
impossible to find CD drive, my local repairer drew a blank with his
various suppliers.
I had considered that the problems were entirely mechanical until one
System Restore or another changed the situation temporarily (with
both
the keyboard and CD problems) - until, perhaps, the virus kicked in
again.
I have scarcely been near any risky sites, and certainly not to
download anything. I have had no virus protection, just the XP
firewalls, which may seem crazy to some, but it had seemed i'd been
safe for years, and have seldome taken risks, and thought the XP
Firewall should be enough.
I'm in an i-cafe now, and had left the flash disk's Windows recovery
files to do a repair, but I'm not hopeful. An attempt to make a
clean
install brought me merely to a blue screen error message.
The long and the short is, how can I get this machine into an out of
the box state? It's spec is still pretty good, and it's only 3 years
old. Is it cabbaged?
Thanks for all help.
I would format the disc first of all - any way I could. Try taking it out
and connecting it to a different computer. See if that works, and once
you
get a fresh copy of OS if this hasn't helped, then worry about the bios -
this might be more tricky, so try the format first.
maybe you could just try clearing the cmos - using the clear cmos jumper.
seeing if you can then get into the bios to see if you can set it to boot
of
the cd rom as default but DON'T SET A DATE as it could be an activate
after
xx/yy/zz upon boot in the bios/mbr of the hd. If you can get a bootable
MBR
fix cd just incase they have buggered the mbr of your system.
Oh GET SOME ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE, Just not Norton.
If your like me and have no A/V software on any of there machines the
please
use linux as there are none written for linux and its virtually impossible
to have one anyway.
www.avast.com
www.grisoft.com (AVG)
both do free for home use AV software. Download it. There is no excuse.
Personally, having put an unprotected laptop on an unfirewalled ADSL
connection myself just to see what happened, I am surprised yours lasted so
long..
You should also go to www.download.com and download zonealarm (the basic
version, again free for home users) . You can also download the AVG free AV
software from here if you can't find it on Grisoft's site - they seem to
make it hard to find on their homepage.
HTH
Mike P
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