Ok. I had this perfectly good stable PC until my 10 year old cousin installed something from a floppy which contained too many viruses and my system crashed. I booted through the win xp pro installation cd and selected repair windows xp.
Now, the process is halfway done and it is in the installing devices stage. but after installing about 70% of the devices, it stops and continues no further. Now my pc is stuck at the setup screen.
What should i do to complete setup. If it isnt possible, how can I over-ride setup to go to my windows xp so that i can recover something. Formatting is not an option as I have too many files that I need. Please help....
2006-12-15 12:54:27 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
take the files out and put them in a external hard drive and then reformat the computer because i think the software is too messed up to use so that is the only option.
once you have reformatted the computer, scan the backed up files and pics and then return it to the computer.
reformatting will make you happier because you get a fresh new start and you wont have to be worried again except the backup might contain that virus again so scan for the virus before you the files back into the computer.
2006-12-15 13:03:58 · answer #1 · answered by Ben 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like Laser said, sometimes the installation can hang for several minutes, while it detects your hardware.
If the installation gets stuck, and you have no alternative, you can boot your computer to a BartPE CD. It's like a bootable version of windows that gives you access to your files stored on NTFS partitions.
It is in this bootable environment that you can backup your data to a safe location.
2006-12-15 16:05:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If that puter is that infested with "whatever" anything you take off of it could possibly carry that infestation with it. SO, boot up as you normally would IF you CAN and back up EVERYTHING you want.
Reformatting with a CLEAN INSTALL is the ONLY way you're going to be able to fix this massive infestation problem. Once you've reformatted, installed all your armour-ware and updates you can try inserting the removable data that you used to back up to and scan it THOUROUGHLY before opening one file on it...to see if you find anything on there that will re-infest the new installation.
I hope this teaches you to put a password on that puter to keep inexperienced users OFF of it!
2006-12-15 13:04:04 · answer #3 · answered by x_southernbelle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well for first off you may have already wiped your hard drive and have installed the new XP Pro. But otherwise make sure the CD is not still in the drive and besides the chkdsk is in the recovery console. As for McAfee, I do not like that software, try a free product such as Avast.
2016-05-22 22:20:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Need some more info on what exactly is wrong with the HD...Can you boot it as a slave from another harddrive and get the info that way? Are you trying a clean install?
2006-12-15 13:00:33 · answer #5 · answered by Rasta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh I know what happened There :P You Have to FORMAT Also let your CD OR DVD Drive rest for the night And it installs clean very common problem for me :P OK ive only Had 6 Years But i did outsmart a so called '' Microsoft Certified '' Asshole He didn't Know How to edit the windows Registry ASSHOLE!
2006-12-15 13:06:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would say try the repair process again, if that doesn't work, make sure the XP cd isn't faulty or anything. If that doesn't help, take out your HDD and use it on another computer so you can retrieve files on it.
2006-12-15 12:57:21 · answer #7 · answered by Vienna 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if the screen that you are at is black, than stoping at 70% and jumping back down to 50% a few times is normal. If you are at the blue screen then there may be something wrong with your cd, so borrow a friends and then try it.
2006-12-15 12:57:53 · answer #8 · answered by Laser 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hmmm ... it would be best to put it in another pc and see if its readable to copy things out or run a recovery app on it like getdataback .. but, depending on if there is a nasty virus on it it could possibly infect said second pc ....
2006-12-15 12:58:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋