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[MoFunk]

I recently went through a virus/trojan/malware atttack on my system It wound up being something called look2me. Well after a 3 day long struggle, I beat it! Well so I thought. This may just be becuase of some of the stuff that got deleted, but last night the computer rebooted itself and then would not boot again. It would just hang on the WinXP screen with that blue line that bounces back and fourth. So I turned the system off and when I restarted, I got a message saying o boot disk. Bummer, I thought my HD pooped out. So I took it to another machine and I am able to access files and like there is nothing wrong. So I took it back to my pc and it wont boot. This is a SATA drive it that makes a difference. Anyway, it has been a LONG time since I have dealt with a blown boot sector and I have never dealt with one from an SATA so I have no idea if there is a difference. Can someone give me an idea if this is an easy fix, or do I need to take off all the important data and start over? I do not want to do that since I have no time, but may have to.

Please help guide me...... Thanks.

 

[GLeeM]

I wonder if the virus deleted (or changed) some of the hidden system files from root of C:\

 

[mrwizer]

I guess my question would be is it worth the time to try and repair the boot sector if you thought you got rid of the problem the first time. Perhaps you would spend time fixing it to only have it happen again? And the amount of time already spent may be better served in just re-installing the OS. But that is just my two cents.

 

[MoFunk]

I agree that I should reload, but I seriously have no time to do it. I am on the road in SF right now and my wife is using a spare PC I had. I would love to be able to get this to boot again and save some time.

 

[mrwizer]

I feel for you, but I am not sure it would really save time. In my experience, I have spent more time on some systems getting them to "work" than it would have taken to reload and reinstall everything. Although it is a personal choice, because some systems take more time than others to get back to the original state.

I blame it on Windows and the way it runs, etc. But perhaps a bit goes to my fustration rather than the OS.

 

[wischeez]

This is the only thing I could find on the look2me virus, no fixes found.....

Look Here



Also found this HERE for removal.

 

[RaySun2Be]

wipe the disk, and reinstall is the best option. But the links by wischeez look to be what you need otherwise.

Good luck with it!

 

[MoFunk]

I think I may have found a fix, but I cant boot into the recovery console. It keeps telling me that it cant find a hard drive. This is an SATA drive, do I have to go through that scsi install first and then will I be able to boot into the recovery console? I am asking first because the 1 floppy that I have died so i would have to go buy a new one, I just want to make sure before I drop the money for it.

 

[Freewolf]

With all of the AMD MB's I have used you have to install the sata drivers before windows setup will see the drive

 

[MoFunk]

ok, i will give that a shot. Thanks.

 

[emjem]

Originally posted by: MoFunk
I think I may have found a fix, but I cant boot into the recovery console. It keeps telling me that it cant find a hard drive. This is an SATA drive, do I have to go through that scsi install first and then will I be able to boot into the recovery console? I am asking first because the 1 floppy that I have died so i would have to go buy a new one, I just want to make sure before I drop the money for it.

So here's how to boot into a command line so that you can get at the restore function:

Recovery Console

 

[emjem]

If you can't get the 'restore' to work boot to your WinXP CD and try to reinstall XP (without doing a reformat, lol). Typically this ends up restoring all of the operating system files while leaving the application files in place.

Reinstalling XP does NOT fix any application files that may have been damaged so you may end up having to reinstall an application or two.

 

[emjem]

Here's the instruction for repairing XP:

From Microsoft