so my computer

[Lizzard[MPE]]

got ****ed up by that teenage ****oles virus

im goin to hunt him down

i tried to reinstall, because nothing on my pc would open up

and the reinstall ****ed up

i lost 5 years of music and games and videos, tv shows, pictures, emails, memories, and my address book.


i am angered

grrrrrrr.

i turn on my pc now and it says general protection fault

and thats it

any ideas what to do?

tried booting from the xp disk and it wont do it

[Wombat]

Buy another hard drive. Hold on to the one you have now, as much/most of that data can likely be recovered.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

god i hope so

[Lambo-Fan]

Well, that are really bad news. Are you sure that your PC is infected? General protection errors can have a lot of reasons (bad RAM, corrupted (system) files etc...

edit: I had similar problems (protection faults) some time ago. The whole thing was caused by faulty RAM.

[Wombat]

Yeah, That may be true. But all those hardware problems have more risk of damaging the HD data, so if the data matters, start with a fresh drive.

[thop]

that's what backups are for. especially if you hold so valueable content on your hard drive.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Make sure you don't have a bad IDE cable. I had a wire or two go bad on one a while back and it seriously corrupted the contents of a HD and made the system act VERY unstable.

[High_Jumbllama]

*High smash bad IDE cables!

Had a work machine as well as my home machine flip out because of this.

[J1NG]

::Waiting to see what happens with extra hd before adding own ideas and comments::

Hope it all goes well Liz.

J1NG

[Wombat]

Originally posted by thop
that's what backups are for. especially if you hold so valueable content on your hard drive.

Valuable advice, presented at entirely the wrong time.

[thop]

Not neccessarily, the next drive failure might come sooner than you think. Another advice: virus scanner.

[Gurm]

I hate to be the lone naysayer here, Liz... but are you sure it was the Lovesan.B you experienced?

Lovesan mostly just makes your machine reboot a lot and ties up your network with packets bombing the Windows Update site. It does NOT:

1. Erase your hard disk.
2. Keep other programs from running (except Windows Update and regedit).
3. Molest your collie or other small animals.

Gpar_

[Evildead666]

Get hold of Memtestx86 from memtest86.com.
Its a tiny download, and you create a small bootable diskette with it.
just boot onto said diskette and leave for a while. If any memory related problems are there, this should detect it.

I've seen many PC's that will bot and run fine with bad memory, and crash only when that particular sector is used.
Give it a whirl.

[UtwigMU]

Also try to get a hold of PQ driveimage or Norton Ghost boot floppy and try to image the drive to your burner.

Otherwise, new HDD with clean install, then connect your old HDD and copy data is your best bet.

[Guru]

Uh make sure the CD-Rom is the primary boot device and run a recovery install! The virus can't disable booting from the xp install disk!

Why is this not in the gebneral HW SW forum?