Tried Repairing it several times but it kept rebooting itself every time it got into Windows. Computer started rebooting itself for no known reason last week. XP operating system, with SP2, on a computer maybe 5+ years old. (This is an update to an article originally published July 17, 2006.) Ubuntu lying around, and I am typically prepared to grab the latest Microsoftįor reference and no endorsement is implied. Hard disk and possibly repair problems by hand, or at least recover filesīecause I tend to be a computer geek, I have copies of both Knoppix and The great thing about all of these bootable CDs is that once you do boot,Įven if you can’t perform the virus scan, you can still examine your Windows Ubuntu’s Live CD doubles as its install CD The most popular Linux Live CD is Knoppix.Īnother promising Live CD is Ubuntu. Or other tools against the Windows installation on your hard disk. That CD and your machine is running a version of Linux without having to makeĪny changes to your system or hard disk. Live CDs are free, downloadable images that can be burned to CD. Many, if not most, distributions of Linux are free. Infections, but also to perform other maintenance and repair on otherwiseĮach of these CDs are free downloads, and when burned to CD, they createīootable media that you can use to recover and repair your unbootable There are several popular free CD images available that containĬollections of tools that can be used not only to recover from malware Rescue CD” and you may find that they have one available.ĭownload that, burn it to CD, and boot your affected system from it toīegin the cleanup process. Have a favorite anti-malware tool, it’s worth searching for that “tool-name In fact, you’ll note a common thread: “rescue” media of some sort. That you can download for this purpose as well. Several anti- malware companies actually also provide recovery disc images Make sure to download the latest version so that the most recent threats Of Microsoft’s anti-malware software that runs directly from the CD when you This relatively new tool is probably exactly what you need. Using another computer, download and burn to CD the Windows Defender Offline. So, we’ll look at a couple of options that don’t involve a complete You’re like too many people, losing all of that data may be a real problem. Properly, this shouldn’t cause you too much grief on the other hand, if The problem, of course, is that this is a lot of work and erasesĮverything, including all of your programs and data. The system in the correct order, you can stay safe from the beginning and be Viruses – so you don’t have to worry about them tagging along. You do reformat and reinstall, you’ll be erasing everything – including any When things are this broken, I often suggest just reinstalling Windows. There are approaches and they all begin with booting something Windows in order to run the anti-virus program. You need to run anĪnti- virus program to possibly fix Windows, but you need to be able to run You’re experiencing a definite chicken-and-egg situation.
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