Quote 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.
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!