Recent content by bikebum

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    Wiping and reinstalling a notebook and some general advice needed

    I will keep it in mind for next time as I am becoming attached to this method. Thanks for all your help MrChad!
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    Wiping and reinstalling a notebook and some general advice needed

    No i386\hotfixes folder exists... So I am good to go?
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    Wiping and reinstalling a notebook and some general advice needed

    Okay, just to clarify where I am at... I have gotten through executing the WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe /x step, have replaced the deploy.cab and am now looking for SVCPACK folder in C:\WIN_CD\CD. That folder does not exist. Also, when looking for the SVCPACK.INF, it only exists in...
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    Wiping and reinstalling a notebook and some general advice needed

    I need to also add that I have copied the XP CD to my C:\WIN_CD\CD as instructed, but once I look for the SVCPACK folder, it is not present. Is this why they say you need to manually copy SVCPACK.IN_?
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    Wiping and reinstalling a notebook and some general advice needed

    Okay, so I have this mostly figured out, however I am vague on 1 point: In the linked instructions at VBdotNet, it recommends you get a copy of SVCPACK.IN_ however where does this come from? There is a SVCPACK.IN_ on my Dell OS CD, but the instructions lead me to believe I don't want that...
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    Wiping and reinstalling a notebook and some general advice needed

    Okay... Thank you much MrChad, however I still have a couple problems. As far as I can tell, several steps can be done on a seperate computer but some require working on the original computer's HD. I have to add that even in safe mode (F8), I am unable to perform any functions that require an...
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    Wiping and reinstalling a notebook and some general advice needed

    Okay, so my stepson comes back from college and says, "My computer has stopped working." So I turn the computer on, get a whole string of errors when Windows tries to boot, and once Windows is up I can access *nothing* but Task Manager and shutdown. So I am assuming he got some virus, malware...
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    Made Newb mistake and it cost me my HD?

    I saw that link somewhere... will try it out!
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    Made Newb mistake and it cost me my HD?

    Okay, I went through the procedure provided by Kwatt. Unfortunately upon my next reboot, the msdh.dll had returned. So... I went and installed spybotS&D. It found all the registry entries, deleted them, etc etc, reboot, spybot does its thing on startup, etc etc, and everything is running as...
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    Made Newb mistake and it cost me my HD?

    Well don't I feel dumb now......... I'm still curious what made my HD not autodetect.... Thank you Kwatt
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    Made Newb mistake and it cost me my HD?

    Panda anti-virus says no viruses. Microsoft online virus tool says not infected. Now my question remains: Where is this mshp.dll coming from? I cannot remove it from my homepage.
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    Made Newb mistake and it cost me my HD?

    Figured out the name of the file and homepage i keep getting... mshp.dll and res://mshp.dll/index.html#10213 I did a search on microsoft for that dll and could not find it.... Is this a coincidence: My printer is an HP... could this be the driver for my printer? I have been getting errors...
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    Made Newb mistake and it cost me my HD?

    Okay, I wasn't clear that when I went into bios, I did do HD autodetect and it returns the result of NONE. I have checked my connections and they are secure. I also recall that one of the files I was going to delete was a dll. However, I just cut that file and was going to move it so if I got...
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    Made Newb mistake and it cost me my HD?

    Being the computer amature that I am, I was faced with the following resulting in what I assume was now a virus either deleting my HD or just making my computer not recognize it. The other day I noticed that my IE homepage had changed to some strange search engine I had never seen before. I...