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My new machine was functioning well, until I belatedly instaled AVG Antivirus
and discovered that I had already picked up the Backdoor IRC and Kepler(?)
worms or trojans.
I subsequently followed the quarantine procedure and deleted the
permissable files discovered but was informed that there were damaged
essential files that could not be dealt with. I then used Tune-Up Utilities
2004 to clean up the registry and took some of their tweak advice.
The machine still appeared to be OK but on the next start-up it would not
boot Windows from the hard drive and asked for the restore cd. I probably
made an error here, as after a couple of attempts at 'fixing' Windows, to no
avail, I decided that it would be better to simply do a clean install, so
followed the instructions to clear the partition and re-install XP.
Now when I boot up I still can't get Windows up and running. Using the
recovery cd I can see that there is a Windows installation on C:, and have
used the BOOTCFG command to poit at it (now listed 3 times in the BOOTCFG!)
but I get the following error messages at various points in the boot process:
"This computer has a non-standard or invalid master boot record"
"An unexpected error (32769) occured at line 5152 in
d:\xpsp1\base\boot\setup\setup.c."
The 'hang' point is at "verifying dmi pool data" and sometimes goes on to
give the message:
For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (020326)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
Can anyone shed any light?
and discovered that I had already picked up the Backdoor IRC and Kepler(?)
worms or trojans.
I subsequently followed the quarantine procedure and deleted the
permissable files discovered but was informed that there were damaged
essential files that could not be dealt with. I then used Tune-Up Utilities
2004 to clean up the registry and took some of their tweak advice.
The machine still appeared to be OK but on the next start-up it would not
boot Windows from the hard drive and asked for the restore cd. I probably
made an error here, as after a couple of attempts at 'fixing' Windows, to no
avail, I decided that it would be better to simply do a clean install, so
followed the instructions to clear the partition and re-install XP.
Now when I boot up I still can't get Windows up and running. Using the
recovery cd I can see that there is a Windows installation on C:, and have
used the BOOTCFG command to poit at it (now listed 3 times in the BOOTCFG!)
but I get the following error messages at various points in the boot process:
"This computer has a non-standard or invalid master boot record"
"An unexpected error (32769) occured at line 5152 in
d:\xpsp1\base\boot\setup\setup.c."
The 'hang' point is at "verifying dmi pool data" and sometimes goes on to
give the message:
For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13 (020326)
PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable
PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM.
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
Can anyone shed any light?