Gamingphreek
Lifer
My mom got a Compaq Laptop soometime ago which uses a Mobile Duron 900mhz. It has 128mb of RAM shared with a 16 or 32mb S3 twisterK graphics card.
Recently my annoying sisters played games downloaded stuff, and generall screwed the computer up. We she has 4 trojans that i can neither find nor get rid of but are still there according to Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition.
I finally shared enough of her drive to transfer he documents and things off her computer to my computer Via network. So then i said hell with this and slapped in the Windows XP disk to reload. Well its a slow machine so i got it started pressed f to format and start install process and walked away. I came back later there is no progress except a wonderful blue screen telling me that he HDD is damaged. Her computer has not been moved or anything so i find it hard to believe that there is any physical dmg. So i deleted the partition and created a new one, went to format it and got the exact same message.
Could one of those virus's have infected the boot sector or caused any real harm or is her HDD just hosed. Once again i find it hard to believe her HDD is gone because it was working fine it just needed a clean install of windows.
I would like to get this running for her tonight as she has a couple E-mails to send out.
Can anyone give any suggestions?
-Kevin
I posted in the tech support and the general hardware forums... yeah Overkill huhand kinda irritating sorry guys but i want to get this done.
Recently my annoying sisters played games downloaded stuff, and generall screwed the computer up. We she has 4 trojans that i can neither find nor get rid of but are still there according to Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition.
I finally shared enough of her drive to transfer he documents and things off her computer to my computer Via network. So then i said hell with this and slapped in the Windows XP disk to reload. Well its a slow machine so i got it started pressed f to format and start install process and walked away. I came back later there is no progress except a wonderful blue screen telling me that he HDD is damaged. Her computer has not been moved or anything so i find it hard to believe that there is any physical dmg. So i deleted the partition and created a new one, went to format it and got the exact same message.
Could one of those virus's have infected the boot sector or caused any real harm or is her HDD just hosed. Once again i find it hard to believe her HDD is gone because it was working fine it just needed a clean install of windows.
I would like to get this running for her tonight as she has a couple E-mails to send out.
Can anyone give any suggestions?
-Kevin
I posted in the tech support and the general hardware forums... yeah Overkill huhand kinda irritating sorry guys but i want to get this done.
