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Old 28th Apr 2004, 11:48
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Luca_brasi
 
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Boot Virus?

Hey all,

Need help with a rather urgent problem

My instructors PC only gets to the first Windows XP loading page (the one that says Win XP, Professional on it) before it restarts itself and tries to reboot before going in the same cycle.

Any attempt at going into Safe Mode produces the same result and the Emergency Backup Disks we have dont work for XP

He has been running PC-cillin and before it went into restart mode it detected 2 Jave based viruses though now we can't even get into the computer to clean them up or get them out of the boot registry. I havent been able to find anything about how to fix the problem when unable to get into XP, all the advice is to fix it from within but in this case it is impossible. I am going to try and format the PC and start again but if its in the Main Boot Record then this will be pointless wont it?

Lots of help urgently required!

Thanks heaps
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