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Hi All ... my buddy asked me to look at his computer which is running win xp on as SATA HD and has this really strange problem. It runs through the bios ok then starts to load win xp. When the win xp window shows on the monitor it kicks back to the option menu ie safe mode, safe mode with networking etc.. It just keeps doing this. I tried selecting all in the safe mode menu but nothing works ... again the monitor shows the win XP window then back to the safe mode menu. I tried booting from one of the two DVD burners that he has and for some reason it doesn't recognise either of the DVD burners. I can go into setup and select the boot sequence but to no avail. I can't do anything to get at the hard drive to format it as I think, and this has happened before, he have a very malicious virus. I've dealt with many viruses and malware before but I never seen one that could do this.
Things I’ve tired:
1) Boot from DVD drives
2) Boot from floppy drive
3) Substituted another HD in place of one of the DVD drives
Any help would be greatly appreciated ... thanks in advance and take care ...Vic
Why didnt you update your windows first of all! IE 4!!!!!!!!!
WE are on IE 8.0 geesh, please do us all a favor and GET OFF THE INTERNET!
Just to add to the previous comment as I re-read that you cant boot from the dvd-drives. Pull out the harddrive and put it into another computer and then use the LiveCD to read it so you dont transfer a virus should it have one to the new machine. Alternatively just remove the hard drive and then use the LiveCD to see if it will boot the computer with no drive attached.
To see if its not the software or the harddrive having a problem you can get a linux liveCD and try to boot using it. If you want something small then you can get a distro like Puppy Linux at puppylinux.org which is about an 80-90mb download and burn it to a cd.
If it boots up fine then another option is to use the built in installer and install it to a small partition on the harddrive which you can make during install through Puppylinux which means you can test to see if the harddrive works ok.
If it does then at least you know the most likely problem is Windows itself and can recover any data you might want out of Windows before you reformat the thing and try again.
Any linux LiveCD that can see NTFS drives will do if you have others available so thats pretty much anything released this year at least.
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