question for anyone who knows pc's

well, long story short..i got a trojan and some malware or something somehow, and basically it messed with my video cards drivers and did all sorts of crazy stuff to my pc and its now basically out of commission. i have a burned copy of windows xp pro but for some reason my pc, when powering up and asking me to boot from cd, wont read the disc. is it because its a burned disc? or maybe the virus messed with my disc drive? im not too up to par with pc tech stuff so im not sure if i need to buy a new copy of windows or just go crazy and get a new hard drive or what.

Its possible a bad burned disc. You can download some bootable discs from the web. And then try to run the install from your cd and see if it works. If you can get to install make sure you do a complete reformat of the harddrive.

i heard that if you need the bootable discs (i think theyre called setup discs) then thats a big red flag.

i have a version of xp you can download to the usb memory stick and boot from it. if you need it shoot me a pm and i will email it to you with the instructions

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Originally Posted by job1.5

i have a version of xp you can download to the usb memory stick and boot from it. if you need it shoot me a pm and i will email it to you with the instructions

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i dont get how that would work haha

you need to tell the pc to boot from the cd/dvd drive first, in the BIOS settings, have you done that?

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Originally Posted by babystarbud

you need to tell the pc to boot from the cd/dvd drive first, in the BIOS settings, have you done that?

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yeah i did that. i messed around in the BIOS forever. nothin doin there. i even took the hdd off the boot queue so it wouldnt boot my existing copy of windows, but it still didnt work. it just gives me an error message saying it cant read the disc or i need to insert the disc and hit enter to retry.

i think the problem is that its a burned disc. sometimes when you burn programs like windows, etc, onto a disc, other pc's have a hard time reading the program. you need like a top-of-the-line, brand new disc drive to read them. at least thats what ive heard. doesnt make sense to me, ive burned discs in that drive a lot of times.

You can't boot from a USB stick, c'monnnnnn.

It's your CD, or even the image you burned onto the CD. If you want a bootable version, let me know. I have one.

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Originally Posted by halfassedjediknight

well, long story short..i got a trojan and some malware or something somehow, and basically it messed with my video cards drivers and did all sorts of crazy stuff to my pc and its now basically out of commission. i have a burned copy of windows xp pro but for some reason my pc, when powering up and asking me to boot from cd, wont read the disc. is it because its a burned disc? or maybe the virus messed with my disc drive? im not too up to par with pc tech stuff so im not sure if i need to buy a new copy of windows or just go crazy and get a new hard drive or what.

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WAS THE BURNED DISK READABLE IN ANOTHER MACHINE..HOW OLD IS THE DRIVE IS IT DVD OR CDR..WHAT CDR..RW- OR PLUS...SOMETIMES RE JUMPERING THE SLAVE OR MASTER JUMPERS... BAD SECTORS GOOD LUCK I SPENT 17 HOURS ON MY KIDS COMPUTER!

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Originally Posted by Daveracer

You can't boot from a USB stick, c'monnnnnn.

It's your CD, or even the image you burned onto the CD. If you want a bootable version, let me know. I have one.

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what do you mean exactly? a bootable version of windows that you could send me in email or something that i would have to download?