AlienMaster
New Member
hello all,
here is my situation, first the hardware
Dell XPS m1530 4gb ram duo core T7700 processors
250 gb hard drive it had 2 partitions to start now 4 partitions
after I repartitioned the drive, ever thing was was still golden.
in fact I used the factory restore twice with out incident.
about 2 weeks ago I start hearing music coming out of my speakers, really weird music and I know I'm not playing music at the time. so first thought is trojan / virus / malware something. So I figure to do a tried and working method of removing it. im gonna reformat C: and do a restore .. 10 to 15 minutes compared to 3 or 4 weeks of fighting with it.
first issue is when I do F8 and goto factory restore all is good it reboots and goes to a blank screen then I get an unknown error more actually I get a blank error.
it reboots and then the bluescreen of death ..
i have tried every thing i can think of to get my system back up .. I borrowed a friends vista business disk got it to install but I was getting errors every 30 to 45 seconds .. I thought maybe it had to do with drivers. I then tried going thru dos boot to see if i could get to my recovery disk and do a recovery that way .. no help.
same blank error.
then i decided to try a windows 7, ok i got it working (i don't like it) but I'm still getting redirects and strange things happening, And now with 7 on board my internal drives have disappeared from disk management. so I'm thinking that the infection is still present. so I think that even tho i told it to format the drive before install it didn't. And I still get the blank error when I attempt run imagex from dos ( i hope its because the infection never got reformatted over. That may be iffy at best.)
I just finished downloading the vista recovery disk. so I am hoping that this will solve my issues.
However since we are talking about windows .. I am not overly optimistic that this will be the case.
now to my query:
if using the recovery disc will let me get to my recovery drive but i still run into said blank error does anyone have any ideas of how to proceed from this point. I really dont think I should have to pay for vista ultimate again, but I'm thinking I may have no choice if I want to get my system back where it was.
I do apologize for this long winded oration. but I felt I needed to let you know what I've done to this point in an attempt to resolve these issues.
and on a personal note .. I would dearly love to find my self face to face with the moron that decided to create this infection .. I'm pretty sure he would have a whole new outlook on life.
AlienMaster
"conquering the human race one interaction at a time."
thanx for reading this .. and many many thanx if anyone can help.
here is my situation, first the hardware
Dell XPS m1530 4gb ram duo core T7700 processors
250 gb hard drive it had 2 partitions to start now 4 partitions
after I repartitioned the drive, ever thing was was still golden.
in fact I used the factory restore twice with out incident.
about 2 weeks ago I start hearing music coming out of my speakers, really weird music and I know I'm not playing music at the time. so first thought is trojan / virus / malware something. So I figure to do a tried and working method of removing it. im gonna reformat C: and do a restore .. 10 to 15 minutes compared to 3 or 4 weeks of fighting with it.
first issue is when I do F8 and goto factory restore all is good it reboots and goes to a blank screen then I get an unknown error more actually I get a blank error.
it reboots and then the bluescreen of death ..
i have tried every thing i can think of to get my system back up .. I borrowed a friends vista business disk got it to install but I was getting errors every 30 to 45 seconds .. I thought maybe it had to do with drivers. I then tried going thru dos boot to see if i could get to my recovery disk and do a recovery that way .. no help.
same blank error.
then i decided to try a windows 7, ok i got it working (i don't like it) but I'm still getting redirects and strange things happening, And now with 7 on board my internal drives have disappeared from disk management. so I'm thinking that the infection is still present. so I think that even tho i told it to format the drive before install it didn't. And I still get the blank error when I attempt run imagex from dos ( i hope its because the infection never got reformatted over. That may be iffy at best.)
I just finished downloading the vista recovery disk. so I am hoping that this will solve my issues.
However since we are talking about windows .. I am not overly optimistic that this will be the case.
now to my query:
if using the recovery disc will let me get to my recovery drive but i still run into said blank error does anyone have any ideas of how to proceed from this point. I really dont think I should have to pay for vista ultimate again, but I'm thinking I may have no choice if I want to get my system back where it was.
I do apologize for this long winded oration. but I felt I needed to let you know what I've done to this point in an attempt to resolve these issues.
and on a personal note .. I would dearly love to find my self face to face with the moron that decided to create this infection .. I'm pretty sure he would have a whole new outlook on life.
AlienMaster
"conquering the human race one interaction at a time."
thanx for reading this .. and many many thanx if anyone can help.
