spikoman69
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Heres my situation, just keeps getting worse. Other day i turn on my computer to see that is is missing/corrupted windows\system32\(something)\system file. I fix it through recovery console, then another file is missing. So, i grab my SP 2 upgrade cd (Which will upgrade you to XP SP2 as long as you have a genuine older version of windows, which i had sp1) so it detected i had SP1, and let me do a repair install. The install goes through, my pcs back working again. Stupid me, gets on, never does a virus or spyware scan. i shut it down and started it right back a few times for various reasons, its still working fine. I shut it off for the night, turn it on again about 12 hours later the next day to come to yet a different error when trying to boot windows xp. This time it flashes...
invalid boot.ini file
boot from c:\windows\
NTDETECT failed.
.... then restarts, load my video card, goes through dell bios loading screen, then flashes that again over and over until i just shut off my pc. I poped in the sp1 cd, cant detect windows to do a repair, pop i the SP2 upgrade cd, cant detect the older verison of windows this time to do a repair, and the first time i had to do the repair, my sp 1 cd still couldnt detect the windows version to do a repair but the sp2 upgade could, but now this time none of them can.
What can i do? Is it a virus/hacker/spyware? HDD failing, corrupting itself (All other files were intact working perfectly when i did the repair the first time)?
invalid boot.ini file
boot from c:\windows\
NTDETECT failed.
.... then restarts, load my video card, goes through dell bios loading screen, then flashes that again over and over until i just shut off my pc. I poped in the sp1 cd, cant detect windows to do a repair, pop i the SP2 upgrade cd, cant detect the older verison of windows this time to do a repair, and the first time i had to do the repair, my sp 1 cd still couldnt detect the windows version to do a repair but the sp2 upgade could, but now this time none of them can.
What can i do? Is it a virus/hacker/spyware? HDD failing, corrupting itself (All other files were intact working perfectly when i did the repair the first time)?