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After being infected by a virus (cleaned from via anti-virus bootcd)
my Dell XP machine no longer boots. Trying to boot in safe-mode stalls
after the line that says that it is loading ACPI.sys. I tried to do a
repair from the windows XP setup CD but it fails to detect the
existing installation. I don't know if it makes any difference but
there are 3 partitions (C:, dell utility and dell recovery).
Since it seems to loading the other 'sys' files before ACPI I assume
that the bootloader sequence is okay (MBR, boot partition, etc) and
the problem lies with system files.
I'm desperately trying to avoid a fresh install (from a labor
perspective, I know I can save the data).
Any help is appreciated.
my Dell XP machine no longer boots. Trying to boot in safe-mode stalls
after the line that says that it is loading ACPI.sys. I tried to do a
repair from the windows XP setup CD but it fails to detect the
existing installation. I don't know if it makes any difference but
there are 3 partitions (C:, dell utility and dell recovery).
Since it seems to loading the other 'sys' files before ACPI I assume
that the bootloader sequence is okay (MBR, boot partition, etc) and
the problem lies with system files.
I'm desperately trying to avoid a fresh install (from a labor
perspective, I know I can save the data).
Any help is appreciated.