- Joined
- Nov 16, 2003
- Location
- Cleveland OHIO
AND FAILING!
Alright guys. Long time no post eh?
So my friend brings his GF's Compaq Crapario computer over. Its a newer one, probably bought earlier this year.
His genius gf had downloaded some nasty worm onto it trying to download some games. Soon the thing was unusable. So i get it. Takes a good 10minutes to boot. I used my mac to get all her pictures off and stored them.
So when the compaq boots, it says "Press F10 to enter System Recover" OK so we do that. Obviously iim dealing with a hidden partition.
I select Destructive Recovery, which stated it would reformat the user partition. Ok sweet. Figure things would be good. So 15 minutes goes by. It gets done, sweet. That was simple. Reboot. Im staring at the same infected installation i was as 15 minutes before. NOTHING was different. AT ALL. Just to make sure i ran system recovery AGAIN. Same thing. Setup was doing nothing. It claimed it was formatting, it warned me all user data would be lost.
So i bust out my copy of xp, and use it to format it. Under the format options screen i have
PARTITION 1 HRESARIOREST
PARTITION 2 C: WINDOWS XP
So i format C and am returned to
PARTITION 1 HRESARIO_RP
PARTITION 2 C: Unknown Partition (or what it usually says)
ok great.
Reboot, goes back into the system restore. Let it do its thing. It reboots, and im left with:
|-Beº$-||-Beº$-|
Thats...great...so i hit F10 again to get into system restore..SAME THING AS ABOVE
SO if i try to install a copy of XP from a regular CD, im left with "INVALID PARTITION TABLE"
And after the last Compaq System Recovery, my partition table is this:
C: Partition 1: PRESARIO_RP
D: Partition 2: [New Raw]
I THINK that has something to do with my issues. I could be wrong.
Now im not going to think about touching that repair partition. The girl was given a CD, but she didnt give it to me. So shes gonna bring it by Sunday.
ANyone have any suggestions? These things make me glad i switched
Thanks in advance guys.
Alright guys. Long time no post eh?
So my friend brings his GF's Compaq Crapario computer over. Its a newer one, probably bought earlier this year.
His genius gf had downloaded some nasty worm onto it trying to download some games. Soon the thing was unusable. So i get it. Takes a good 10minutes to boot. I used my mac to get all her pictures off and stored them.
So when the compaq boots, it says "Press F10 to enter System Recover" OK so we do that. Obviously iim dealing with a hidden partition.
I select Destructive Recovery, which stated it would reformat the user partition. Ok sweet. Figure things would be good. So 15 minutes goes by. It gets done, sweet. That was simple. Reboot. Im staring at the same infected installation i was as 15 minutes before. NOTHING was different. AT ALL. Just to make sure i ran system recovery AGAIN. Same thing. Setup was doing nothing. It claimed it was formatting, it warned me all user data would be lost.
So i bust out my copy of xp, and use it to format it. Under the format options screen i have
PARTITION 1 HRESARIOREST
PARTITION 2 C: WINDOWS XP
So i format C and am returned to
PARTITION 1 HRESARIO_RP
PARTITION 2 C: Unknown Partition (or what it usually says)
ok great.
Reboot, goes back into the system restore. Let it do its thing. It reboots, and im left with:
|-Beº$-||-Beº$-|
Thats...great...so i hit F10 again to get into system restore..SAME THING AS ABOVE
SO if i try to install a copy of XP from a regular CD, im left with "INVALID PARTITION TABLE"
And after the last Compaq System Recovery, my partition table is this:
C: Partition 1: PRESARIO_RP
D: Partition 2: [New Raw]
I THINK that has something to do with my issues. I could be wrong.
Now im not going to think about touching that repair partition. The girl was given a CD, but she didnt give it to me. So shes gonna bring it by Sunday.
ANyone have any suggestions? These things make me glad i switched
Thanks in advance guys.