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Windows Won't Reboot Anymore

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Metallica_Band

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Hey there...Windows won't reboot...I told it to reboot and went to the bathroom and when I came back the screen was black...I thought that Windows crashed while booting out cause I rarely shut it down and reboot my computer...so I pressed the restart button and it did it's normal thing up until the Windows logo whre it has its blue scrolling bar...normally it scrolls 10 times before going into Windows but this time it did it 50+ times before going black and then restarting itself doing the whole hing over again...I told it to go into safe mode but when I pressed that option it displayed a list of dll's or something...it looked like the stuff it uses when using safe mode...but it froze after that...

Before I restarted I had run AdAware 6.0 Pro...it found a bunch of your regular Adware stuff and I deleted it and went on with what I was doing...the whole reason for the rare reboot was because Windows was acting weird...like when I pressed a program for it to open like My Computer it acted as if all the CPU were being used for something...I could move the mouse around and click on an active window but the window wouldn't show any info until a few seconds later when it unfroze itself...it's like time stood still except for the mouse...I opened task manager but it didn't show anything using up any CPU during the freeze cause it froze along with everything else too...after it recovered and opened whatever it was that I wanted open everything would just go back to normal...

I have Norton 2004 Pro...it updates itself automatically...it ran a couple days ago and found 2 things...1 thing it deleted but the other thing it couldn't...so I put the location of that infected file in a txt for the next time I restarted Windows so I could manually delete it in safe mode...I have no idea what it was that was infected but I don't think it was a virus...I'm pretty shure it was some type of adware...I think a virus would have caught my attention better if it were a virus...

Now I thought at first it was a hard drive failure but now that I think of it I don't think it is...I think it's too big of a coincidence for my hard drive to fail right after a rare reboot...I look at the hdd light and it blinks for hdd activity so the hdd is trying to do something when it's attempting to reboot...

Next I thought it'd be a virus...a virus would most likely be in my C partition...I have my 200GB hdd in 3 partitions...C is for Windows, D is for installed programs, and E is for Misc downloaded files and storage and stuff...I doubt a virus would originate in the D partition cause the only things that get installed on there are programs installed by me and patches to games and apps that are kept on the E partition...Norton scans pretty much everything I download and put on the E partition...My guess is if there's a virus that it'd be on the C partition...next would be something that snuck in on the E partition...don't think it's on the D partition unless it copied itself over there...

Now let's say it's on the C partition...could I just delete the C partition and reinstall Windows on the new C partition and clear the virus or problem or whatever??? I know I'd have to reinstall pretty much ALL my programs on D partition (damn registry) since C and D are linked via the registry and any files that were also installed on the Windows partition...something like SiSoft Sandra would do that...after I get Windows running that way I'd prolly back up everything and reformat EVERYTHING and start with a fresh HDD...

Does this "sound" like a virus at work??? Could a HDD failure be possible??? I don't think so...my money is on a virus...possibly that virus that Norton wouldn't delete...is there anything I can do??? Tests that would rule out things??? Need help here...THANX
C'YA :cool:
 
Before you do anything I would try going into Safe Mode and reverting back to a Restore Point.
 
Major_A said:
Before you do anything I would try going into Safe Mode and reverting back to a Restore Point.
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Metallica_Band said:
I told it to go into safe mode but when I pressed that option it displayed a list of dll's or something...it looked like the stuff it uses when using safe mode...but it froze after that...
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My bad just skimmed your problem. Have you tried the Repair option with reinstalling XP?
 
Actually that's what I just got to...never used it tho...I'm at the C:\Windows promt...not sure how to proceed tho...what should I do from there???

EDIT: Well I typed HELP...it didn't help me very much...saw I could use DIR tho...I went to my E partition and DIR'd and saw that it read all my folders and files...went into a few folders and it reads stuff there...went into my D folder and found stuff there...does this rule out HDD failure???
 
I have a 200GB Western Digital...I don't THINK it's even a year old...can't remember...it's DEFINATELY not over 2 years...but not sure if it hit 1 year yet or not...WD hard drives are popular and reliable...it better not be a failure...I'll try the link you gave me...I'm too tired to do it now tho...real late...gotta wake up before noon today...
 
OK....I tried the link but nothing works...the recovery thing doesn't show up after the Agreement thing in Windows Install...the last link it gave me on the page is what I'm trying right now...HERE

I did all those commands EXCEPT the software one...my software one is 20GB...it's a huge file...prolly cause I have a TON of progs and apps...I don't know how I can move the file to the tmp folder I made...it doesn't have a move command...just a copy command and I can't copy it...hmmmm....unless I copy it to the D or E partition...I'll try that....just now thought of that..

ANYWAYS...ummm....nevermind...I'm gonna try the thing I just said...I'll just post here to tell ya that I'm still working on int and what I'm trying to do now...
 
Have you tried a different ribbon for the hard drive? Mine did the same thing till I changed the hdd ribbon.
 
It does sound like a virus - you may have to visit the usual suspects (Norton, Mcafee, etc.) and download a file and make a boot floppy and scan your disk drives.

why weren't you using a restricted account when accessing the internet?
 
qb4ever said:
Have you tried a different ribbon for the hard drive? Mine did the same thing till I changed the hdd ribbon.
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Hmmm...I'll try that
wallijonn said:
It does sound like a virus - you may have to visit the usual suspects (Norton, Mcafee, etc.) and download a file and make a boot floppy and scan your disk drives...why weren't you using a restricted account when accessing the internet?
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But I don't know what virus it is and I can't even get into Windows to run a scan...what do you mean "restricted account"???
 
mpK1337 said:
Whens the last time you updated windows?
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\What do you mean??? Update via Windows Update or via the thing that pops up every once in a while and says it has things for you to download and if ya want to download them and then tells you it's ready to install them??? I do both on a regular basis
 
OK...Access Denied to my D and E partitions...guess that's why it tells me to pick "1. C:\Windows"...so here's where I am...I can't move a 20GB file anywhere cause there's no move command, I can't copy it anywhere cause C partition is too small for the huge file and access is denied to the other partitions...so now what???

I was just thinking about renaming the config folder to Config Test, make a new Config folder, copy all files to the new Config folder except the big file...BTW...the file I'm talking about in case I haven't mentioned it yet is Software...no extension I don't think...this way I can follow the directions in the site I mentioned above I think...

The only thing is I need to know if there are any hidden files...I know that Windows hides files in certain folders and I need to know if it hides them in Recovery Console mode...I want to find this info out before I try out the next recovery attempt...

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Something else...I was wondering if I could "hook up" the hard drive to my other computer and scan it that way...is there a way to do that without having (if there is indeed a virus) the virus spread to my other computer??? Actually I kinda HOPE it's a virus...less expensive that way...:rolleyes:...
 
DAMNNIT!!!!!!!!! I can't rename folders...BUT...I can rename files...I renamed the software (w/ no extension) to software.bak...only difference with the way I did it and the way I was SUPPOSED to do it is the original software file (now a.k.a. software.bak) is in the config folder instead of my newly made tmp folder...all else is the same...so I did that and hoped it wouldn't delete it or something and restarted..

YEAH!!! I see a cursor!!!! It's alive!!! ALIVE!!!!!! This is a good sign that it's a virus that's affecting my C partition...now I just have to complete the rest of the steps

EDIT: ok...I've finally got everything back...but I got 2 errors...something about not being able to get my profile or something...I'll post what it said a a bit...
 
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