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cscolley   07-26-2009 at 01:21:29 PM

I risked going without an anti virus for a while and managed to catch one. No big deal, I usually just go into Safe Mode, do a thorough cleaning and I'm good, but this time I can't. (I also don't have a restore point.)

:bounce:

"F8" while booting does nothing for me. I even enabled USB support in my BIOS. Since I can't get into the Boot Menu,

I did "msconfig" and tried to enable Safeboot from there. When I check "Safeboot", System configuration crashes with an error. Selecting Diagnostic Startup does nothing at all. I can't even check the box.

ALSO, whenever I boot up now, I get an "INVALID BOOT.INI - Booting from C:windows" every time.

Anyone have any idea what happened here, and how I can fix this, get into safe mode and clean this system out?

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miagi   07-28-2009 at 07:57:09 AM

You can clean the system by getting UBCD and running their EZFix application to do all the dirty work of cleaning sytem and there is a Antivirus cleaner and malware remover also all running off boot cd.

 

http://www.ubcd4win.com/


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