Laptop no boot: txtsetup.sif corrupt or missing

[cam35pilot]

Hi,
I have a Sony Laptop (my sisters actually). She thought she had a
virus, so I ran Mcafee and sure enough a trojan was deleted. It was
something that was passing itself off as an anti-virus, according to
her. She had "agreed" to load AntiVirus2009, which I then removed
through the programs menu (it had "uninstall") before running McAfee.

When I went to restart the laptop, I wanted to get into safe mode
to run Spybot S&D, but I accidentally hit F2 and got the boot menu. I
exited out by F10 (I'm sure that I didn't change anything), save and
exit. I'm kicking myself for not just shutting it down with the power
button.

Then, I just got a black screen with "INF FILE txtsetup.sif
missing or corrupt..status 4136 press any key to continue" and then
just black screen upon pressing a key.

Is it possible that I did something upon the restart (hit nothing
but F keys, F2, F8, F10 looking for the "boot in safe mode" screen...I
guess I messed up there, should have gone through MSConfig in Run menu
in hindsight)? When I put in the disk trying to fun Automated System
Recovery, it asks which Windows Installation I'd like to log into: C:
\minint or D:\WINDOWS. This is confusing to me. I've never seen C:
\minint before.

What I see on the net about that txtsetup.sif is that it may be a
memory problem,but that seems a bit too coincidental. Can anyone give
me an idea what I might try? Thanks.

Rich

 

[db.·.. >]

well, if you simply exited
the bios setup then you
likely didn't create a problem.

however, it is easy enough
to access the bios screen
and ensure the settings
are appropriate.

they usually have a quick
setup whereas you can press
a key for optimal settings.

pay close attention to the
system clock to ensure its
time is accurate.

the lack of accuracy is a
clear indication that the
cmos battery needs to
be replaced.

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in any case, most of the time
when a system is attacked
by an infection, system files
are the target of the attacks.

then when the infection is
zapped away, the corrupted
system files then need to be
replaced with genuine ones
from a genuine windows cd.

the laptop likely came with
recovery disks and may even
have a hidden partition with
a backup of the o.s.

however, the objects above
simply erases the current
installation and reinstalls
the original state of the
machine.

therefore, my suggestion is
to ascertain a windows cd,
boot with it and perform
a repair installation.

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