[Dralan552]

Hello everyone and happy holidays

Here is the situation... a few days ago i was surfing the web and for no reason at all my Computer just shut down.. when i turned it back on windows wouldnt load it just said "Operating System not found" and rebooted... after it rebooted itself 5-8 times windows finaly loaded and i emediatly ran my AV of which told me there were a number of virus's (23 i believe) and removed all but one.. after rebooting again instead of saying "Operating system not found" it says something failed (it reboots before i can read it)... I dont have any restore CDs and i dont have a Windows CD, which probly wont do anything because my disk drive hasent worked in a while.. I do have an external but not sure if i can have it boot off of that..

I am running windows xp home on a Sony Vaio PCG-K25

thankyou for your help

[evilfantasy]

We will need to see what is going on with the computer.

Download HijackThis (HJT)

• Double-click on HJTInstall.
• Click on the "Install" button to install.
• It will automatically place HJT in C:\Program Files\TrendMicro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe.
• Upon install, HijackThis should open for you.
• Next click on the "Do a system scan and save a log file" button
• HijackThis will scan and then a log will open in notepad.
• Copy and then paste the log in your post.
  • Don't have Hijackthis fix anything yet. Most of what it finds will be harmless or even required.

[Dralan552]

I would by all means download and do whatever you need to help me... but i cant even get windows to load... the screen goes black and says something failed and reboots (i cant read it because it reboots to fast)...

[Dralan552]

any other input would be appreciated..

thankyou

[howardhopkinson]

Can you boot into safe mode?

If so, you may want to try a system restore to before your problem occurred.

Regards Howard.

[Dralan552]

nope cant boot into safe mode either... everything i try just ends up being restarted anyway

[howardhopkinson]

Oh dear, that`s not good.

All I can suggest is you take out your hard drive and put it in another system as a slave drive. get your important data off of it, then replace it back into your system.

You`ll need to purchase a Windows CD, then reformat and reinstall everything from scratch.

Alternatively, you might want to take your pc to a repair shop and have them look at it for you.

Regards Howard.