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Post by merchant42 on Apr 4, 2009 6:16:36 GMT
My brothers PC has taken it onto itself to not boot up we cannot get it to go past the first couple of screens then it seems to loop back to the first screen.
It will not boot into safe mode either
I could give him a clone of my HD but its the photos that he has not backed up that he needs to get off the HD
Any suggestions gratefully received
Thanks
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Post by mikkh on Apr 4, 2009 7:55:35 GMT
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Post by merchant42 on Apr 4, 2009 8:52:15 GMT
Thanks Mikkh
Thats what I will try I have about 10 different Linux Live Distros So I will try that and get what my brother wants off the HD then he can clone my HD and transfer it back
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Post by ken on Apr 4, 2009 11:26:58 GMT
Be sure to do a Full Format of his drive before reinstalling. It sounds like boot sector virus and a Quick Format wont get rid of it.
KC
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Post by merchant42 on Apr 4, 2009 14:43:42 GMT
My Brother managed to sort it himself we had a spare HD so he just made the Old one the slave booted up the new one and has managed to access the files he needs that way from now on hes going to keep a backup on his external HD !
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Post by ken on Apr 4, 2009 15:29:46 GMT
I would be very careful doing it that way. If that drive has a boot sector virus on it, they are the worst type of infection you can get. By hooking it up to his new C: drive, he's risking infecting that. He would have been better off transferring the files to external media, and scanning them. Then wipe that drive clean and fully formatting it, before connecting it to a working drive. A boot sector virus can go through a system like a dose of salts.
KC
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Post by jojo on Apr 5, 2009 9:35:45 GMT
While this is really sad, I am somewhat surprised that some of the psycho-nerds are still bothering to write these viruses.
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Post by ken on Apr 5, 2009 14:07:40 GMT
Unfortunately there are a lot of sick people out there Jojo. There are probably people writing code on their laptops in their padded cells. All provided by the NHS.
KC
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Post by merchant42 on Apr 9, 2009 20:16:34 GMT
Update !
Well after all that his pc decided to really give us the run around and stopped working so we decided to wipe his HD completely and to clone a copy of my HD we were going to do it on the Sunday
Yep my pc decided to give the ghost before we cloned it !
At this point I was all for throwing the d**n things off the 6th floor balcony !
Ended up having to go out on Monday and buying a copy of XP Home SP3 but all is well now and we have the PC's working (fingers crossed !!!)
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Post by ken on Apr 9, 2009 20:40:51 GMT
Its not legal to install one copy on 2 machines, but dont worry I wont tell anybody.
Pleased you got it sorted.
KC
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Post by merchant42 on Apr 28, 2009 16:36:05 GMT
Did not install it on both machines its only installed on my machine !
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Post by ken on Apr 28, 2009 16:53:31 GMT
To clone a copy to another machine is the same difference. I'm not bothered, do what you like. My names not Gates.
KC
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