ULTRA URGENT! COME HERE ASAP! I think I got a virus!

FlareEyes · **Posts:** 40 **Joined:** Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:53 pm

Knoppix would solve this very quickly, yes. Good idea.

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html

Epcot · **Posts:** 67 **Joined:** Sun Nov 28, 2004 4:15 pm

How did you post this?

Alex · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:12 am

From someone else's computer, I assume.

DM was on fire! · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:15 pm

He's got a new laptop, so he could be posting from it. *gloats from knowing Adam so well* (Right now, he isn't posting at all! *gigglesnort*)

Well, you're running Firefox full time now, right? So you could've have gotten a virus from a IE security hole. Don't go to a shop, one time a friend of ours took his computer to a shop, they charged him and did nothing.

A blue screen on Windows XP is kinda rare. I can't think of anything that could've happened.

Try F-Disking it if you have the Windows drivers or putting in the CD recovery--wait, XP doesn't have CD recovery. You'll have to download it off of the website. I'm on a homebuilt, so I have my drivers disks, so ask someone with a name brand computer.

Hunter Lupe · **Posts:** 1140 **Joined:** Mon May 31, 2004 1:36 pm

XP CDs do have the recovery console.

Adam, you've somehow damaged the file system, and windows is unable to boot. This is not a driver issue. (It may be the sign of a failing hard disk, but it's still accessible, so it seems unlikely)

MSDN KB Q297185 wrote:

[...] restart the computer to the Recovery Console, and then use the chkdsk /r command to repair the volume. After you repair the volume, check your hardware to isolate the cause of the file system damage.

To do this, use the following steps:
1. Start your computer with the Windows startup disks, or with the Windows CD-ROM if your computer can start from the CD-ROM drive.
2. When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, press R to select the repair option.
3. If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the Windows installation that you want to access from the Recovery Console.
4. Type the administrator password when you are prompted to do so.

NOTE: If no administrator password exists, press ENTER.
5. At the command prompt, on the drive where Windows is installed, type chkdsk /r, and then press ENTER.
6. At the command prompt, type exit, and then press ENTER to restart your computer.

FlareEyes · **Posts:** 40 **Joined:** Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:53 pm

... he just needs a live distro of Linux (such as the one I already linked, Knoppix) to back-up his files and start fresh, freeing the system fom any related problems, and thus avoiding problems in the future.

Adam loves Hilary Duff · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:25 pm

I had to reinstall windows and then it worked again.
All of my stuff gone, but it is alright.
And DM, it was the laptop that got screwy like that.

Articfox · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:09 pm

Blue Screen of Death is a pain, I had it on an old laptop, another reason why I prefer Windows 2000 over XP but anyway: I actually could retsart my computer with it it just would still come up from time to time.

JellyFish72 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:51 pm

[quote="DM was on fire!"]
A blue screen on Windows XP is kinda rare. I can't think of anything that could've happened.]

Not on my computer... I had JUST rebuilt my computer, and ended up with the BSOD about 7 times... And a note to all who don't know, disk checks can possibly totally destroy your hard drive... it's very annoying when your computer does them without permission...

What's worse, is on my laptop, in the middle of class one day, I got a GREEN screen of death... that was weird...

I hope it doesn't hapen again though, but you will know what's wrong with it if it does...

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