XP Virus (Nasty one)

[hcts]

Hi,

I have been hit by some kind of virus on my laptop. It gave me a message about the Dell Media System upgrading, then when it restarted Internet Explorer does not open, just blinks. I cannot use cut and paste. Most of the services are not running. System Restore will not open. I have tried resetting the defaults in IE, ran SFC, scandisk and reviewed the startup entries in the registry. AVG does not load anymore and a reinstall failed.

Has anyone had any luck with this? I really don't want to loose everything but will have to reformat and reload if necessary.

Thanks in advance,

James Howard

 

[linney]

Have you tried Safe Mode, you might even find System Restore on your way to it. If you can get into Safe Mode try your scanners from there.

Any chance of removing the drive and scanning it on another machine? Maybe a Laptop Adapter is something you can look at using?

These talk about Laptop Adapters which connect the drive to a Desktop.

Mount an unbootable NTFS drive? !!HELP!! Tough one.
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ReImage laptop hard drive
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Here is an example.

http://insidecomputer.stores.yahoo.net/la2tode3hadr.html

You can run things like ChkDsk /r from the Recovery Console too.
How to install and use the Recovery Console in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307654&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

 

[ACooperman]

Try and install Hi-Jack This

http://majorgeeks.com/download3155.html

Post a log from it into here and i will have a lookie for you.