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Help much needed with Win XP

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plasma

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Today I downloaded something off a p2p network and it had a trojan or at least some nasy spyware in it.

Basically windows croaked so I rebooted, but then it wouldnt load the desktop and went into a loop rebooting.

I have installed XP on an extra drive, ran adaware which found like 80 things on the old drive! and successfully removed them.

I tried to boot from the old drive, but because I had tried the windows recovery console prior to installing XP on the new drive it brings up the Windows setup screen. I try to go thru the setup and it asks for a file called "nvenetfd" which I have on a driver cd so I put it in, point it to it and everything seems ok. Then it gets to the display part of the setup and the screen flickers black, it reboots but then goes rate back into the same setup screen in a loop! I hope that makes sense?

Now my question is what can I do to skip the setup stuff and just try to boot from the old drive? Is there a utlity that can cleanup windows if need be? should I try booting from the xp disk and using the repair option again from the begining?

any help or ideas will be greatly appreciated; because if I can't get it to work I will be reinstalling everything from scratch :mad: I've already started to transfer the stuff I want to save so if someone can save me all the trouble it would be great :)

thanks
 
Did you try a recovery console, or start a repair install?

If you actually started a repair install, aborted and ran and spyware scan, then started back into the repair isntall (this sounds likely from your description, you don't actually install anything from recovery console mode and it doesn't add any boot.ini entries), you would probably be better off starting from scratch after backing up your data from the second install.

It would take less time than actually fixing it, if possible, from where you are at now.
 
Yep, sometimes it's better to to Ghost the drive, do a fresh install, and restore your data from extracting it from the Ghost image.
 
I would bite teh bullet and re-install Windows from scratch + all your applications, then take an image of that partition using Acronis True Image so incase something happens in the future,,, you're just a few mins from restoring your system to when it was just newly formatted and configured! has saved me hours and hours of annoying reinstalls! everytime something bad happens, i'm just a few mins away from restoring everything back to normal.
 
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