Through a corrupt file, my neighbour caught a few viruses, trojans, the whole shebang.
She wasn't running the anti-virus routine i had installed for her.
She did, however, run all windows updates. So now her computer is XP SP3.
This is how it all went down:
-She was not able to start windows in normal mode one morning, so she used safe mode.
-She was not able to revert to a "last know good configuration" either when in windows or before loading it.
-Then we put in the XP original CD, ran scandisk /r , from then it would not load at all, not being to find hal.dll
-i have attempted a few things to fix the boot.ini, with fixboot and a few other commands.
-expanding the file from the cd did not work
-Any other instruction in KB314477 on Microsoft's website were done and did nothing
the same error about hal.dll being missing shows up
So... help?
Getting anything on a floppy to then put in that computer is a little hassle as the closest other computer with a floppy is a block away. I do not believe that usb boot works on that motherboard. Putting the old drive into an enclosure is also not an option as i do not have mine available for a few weeks and she is not spending any money for this.
Just help me guys or this will probably have to go into love & relationships.
She wasn't running the anti-virus routine i had installed for her.
She did, however, run all windows updates. So now her computer is XP SP3.
This is how it all went down:
-She was not able to start windows in normal mode one morning, so she used safe mode.
-She was not able to revert to a "last know good configuration" either when in windows or before loading it.
-Then we put in the XP original CD, ran scandisk /r , from then it would not load at all, not being to find hal.dll
-i have attempted a few things to fix the boot.ini, with fixboot and a few other commands.
-expanding the file from the cd did not work
-Any other instruction in KB314477 on Microsoft's website were done and did nothing
the same error about hal.dll being missing shows up
So... help?
Getting anything on a floppy to then put in that computer is a little hassle as the closest other computer with a floppy is a block away. I do not believe that usb boot works on that motherboard. Putting the old drive into an enclosure is also not an option as i do not have mine available for a few weeks and she is not spending any money for this.
Just help me guys or this will probably have to go into love & relationships.