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| Sin Dogan Posts: 716/861 |
No, Recovery Console does not pop up under startup options.
Well for all of those possible solutions, I would need an XP CD, yea? I mean, Sukasa, if I get the CD, I can just use that on bootup instead of going into XP(which I can't do) to erase the partition with the original xp setup and install a new one for best results. I mean when I get the CD, I could always check if Recovery Console can fix it first... I have heard that this(the original trojan I talked about, not the blue screen) is a non critical error and isn't really a threat anyway, but it doesn't matter now because all I need is for it to be gone. update: Well I found out that hitting 'F5' on startup takes me to an advanced startup options menu. Among those options is one to disable rebooting after an error occurs. I selected that one and was able to at least see what error code was displayed on the blue screen. It was 0x0000007B. The only solution that I can even try requires the CD(which I don't have at the moment) while the rest require me to actually log in which I can't do because the system restarts each time. 2nd Update: Okay, I got a CD and tried installing a fresh new installation onto my C: partition (the one that had the old files). So, it went through the process of copying files and stuff to the drive, deleting the old C:\WINDOWS folder, saying it would resume setup after it reboots. It rebooted. Said that "Setup is now being restarted..." And then it comes up in safe mode and tells me that the setup "cannot continue in safe mode" and restarts. Everytime. I'm wondering if deleting the old partition(reformat) will fix things. 3rd update: Well I just had to mess around the the 'bootcfg' command in the recovery console to get the setup going. It worked. Now I just have a bunch of unnecessary bootups that I can choose from. I ran the 'rucompliant' wizard and voila! No viruses! BUT! I have to install Service Pack 2 to get online. And I can't do that even though I have the file because of my key... No worries though. Also, one very odd thing is that I cannot get into my old C:/Documents and Setting/User folder. It says that the access is restricted while I have never kept my files/folders private. I'm not worried because 'My Documents' are in there(I kept that in D:/) but, and correct me if I'm wrong here, aren't Firefox's bookmarks kept in there? under 'application data' or something of the sort? |
| Sukasa Posts: 1675/2068 |
if you can, you might be well off putting the drive into another comptuer and then erasing the affected file, and replacing it with a clean version. I hear laptop -> IDE adapters aren't too hard to find, if you ned that as well. |
| FreeDOS + Posts: 833/1312 |
Hmm, it might possibly be a rootkit that's being detected. If that's the case, then you should be able to see the file from Recovery Console (boot the XP CD-ROM, and there's a Recovery console mode to boot into), though RC cannot delete it (it's like Microsoft added a so-called recovery mode to please people, but put no though into making it useful ~_~). However, you could list the services at boottime and disable any that look suspicious. |
| SuperLuigi64 Posts: 205/281 |
If your drive is partitioned, it should not affect the other part of your drive. And why in the hell is a thing like OfficeScan able to find stuff that McAfee can't?!
I would ask if your using McAfee Stinger, but that isn't going to help you too much. As for recovery, hold in F8 while your system is booting, and that loads startup options. Is Recovery Console on the list? P.S. This is why I call it XPiece of Sh*t. |
| Sin Dogan Posts: 715/861 |
Well the academic year at Rutgers started this past week and I moved in on Monday. I tried setting up my computer for the internet by first running all kinds of malware scanning software(ewido, adaware, mcafee, registry mechanic) and used their crappy OfficeScan application followed by ruCompliant, a setup wizard which deems your computer worthy of internet access. Mine was not. Apparently, it kept finding this one infected file, ntswrl32.dll, which had a backdoor-czp trojan attached to it. Since then I have scanned many a time and no other scanning software I have(aside from the shitty OfficeScan thing Rutgers gave me) can detect it. And OfficeScan cannot clean, delete, or even quarantine the damn file. I couldn't find it in Explorer either.(It was apparently in the system32 folder)
That being said, I called up the computer help desk(free of charge) to ask for help. They told me to run windows in safe mode. However, upon doing so, the system would restart everytime after receiving a message at the bottom of the screen telling me to hit escape to skip loading 'sptd.sys'. Then I tried running it in normal mode. BAM! Blue screen. It didn't hang there either. It was a flash and then restarted. Since I don't have my Windows XP CD with me, I really don't know what to do. I've tried all the simple workarounds that have worked in the past. Like restarting the computer, letting it rest, unplugging(and replugging) the HD, playing around with startup settings.... A friend said that ctrl+f8 or ctrl+f11 on some computers would bring up the recovery utility or something, which didn't work. I'm getting a friend to help me if I'm lucky and if he can't, I'll have to wait until next week(when I go back home) to get my xp cd. I was wondering if push comes to shove and I have to make a clean new installation of XP, can I do it over the setup partition(my 120 gb hd is split into two currently-- 10/15 for the xp setup files and the rest for all my other shit) without affecting the other one? If I really have to, that is. Thanks a lot. -Currently posting from the computer lab. |
