how do u fix a computer/monitor if....

crazyskwrls · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 2293 **Location:**

the windows XP is deleted and the repair cd wont work?

Here is the story, yesterday my dad was using my computer for some reason and he downloaded this program that contained a trojan virus and every time i try to turn my computer on it says fatal error and shuts off.
so my dad who is a software engineer thinks he knows alot about computers says oh lets just reintall windows again and we will do it the way so we dont have to backup everything. so i was like okay... we got out the cd it had 3 choices

delete old xp and install a new one
make a new folder and install int
exit

so we choose the first option and when we started installing the xp it cant not find any of the .dll stuff so we tried again and again no luck...

anyone wanna help me?

PS i'm using his new laptop which is like 5x better than my old computer but i think i lost everyting on my old computer

mosiac · **Joined:** May 2007 **Posts:** 808 **Location:** ಠ_ಠ

idunno what you mean by repair CD, but insert your regular XP cd, boot from the cd then delete your partition, then reinstall windows., don't just reinstall it.
if you did that and you still can't install it then your cd is corrupt.

sirs1ayer · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 524 **Location:**

if you deleted the install of windows... wouldn't you still have the trojan/virus still on your system somewhere?
i say you gotta swipe the bitch reformat and reinstall.

mosiac · **Joined:** May 2007 **Posts:** 808 **Location:** ಠ_ಠ

sirs1ayer wrote:

if you deleted the install of windows... wouldn't you still have the trojan/virus still on your system somewhere?
i say you gotta swipe the bitch reformat and reinstall.

by deleting the "install of windows" he means reformat, atleast i think so.

crazyskwrls · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 2293 **Location:**

i am reformating my whole computer now the bad thing is that i was only able to backup some of my stuff the rest is already gone i dunno how it got deleted

shabowsdawn · **Joined:** Dec 2007 **Posts:** 262 **Location:**

install lunix lol like xubuntu i have it on my laptop works great all you need is to burn it onto a cd and stuff and install it like normal

strangelove · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 1255 **Location:** no

Try downloading a copy of a LiveCD version of a Linux distro. (I recommend Ubuntu) It's an operating system but it doesn't actually install- more like a test drive or to check your computer if anything went wrong. You can use the LiveCD to check your hard drives or back up anything important. After you've backed everything up you can begin reinstalling Windows. Also, if you do not have drivers for your computer, I suggest also downloading them beforehand.

Ubuntu LiveCD

Ashikiheyun · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 1821 **Location:** CMA

Fug_Dup wrote:

Try downloading a copy of a LiveCD version of a Linux distro. (I recommend Ubuntu) It's an operating system but it doesn't actually install- more like a test drive or to check your computer if anything went wrong. You can use the LiveCD to check your hard drives or back up anything important. After you've backed everything up you can begin reinstalling Windows. Also, if you do not have drivers for your computer, I suggest also downloading them beforehand.

Ubuntu LiveCD

+1

That's the best way IMO. Lots of people don't know about this, but it works wonders! My dad taught me and when our last hard drive took a turn for the worse he just put in Ubuntu and backed up the files that we still needed.

crazyskwrls · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 2293 **Location:**

i'll try what u guys said

yesterday i got another windows xp cd from my neighbor and it worked. so i guess my cd was just corrupt or something. BUT after i installed it my monitor became screw up i dont even know how... the sreen resolution wont go above 600X800 (i think), i tried everythng to fix my monitor and i think i screwed it up even more
and now every time i turn on my computer i see the windows xp load then the screen just becomes black

help?

shabowsdawn · **Joined:** Dec 2007 **Posts:** 262 **Location:**

crazyskwrls wrote:

i'll try what u guys said

yesterday i got another windows xp cd from my neighbor and it worked. so i guess my cd was just corrupt or something. BUT after i installed it my monitor became screw up i dont even know how... the sreen resolution wont go above 600X800 (i think), i tried everythng to fix my monitor and i think i screwed it up even more
and now every time i turn on my computer i see the windows xp load then the screen just becomes black

help?

because the xp disk you borrowed didnt have your graffics driver so you got to install yours and update it

EDIT: or you have to install the graffic card if you installed a graffics card meaning like you pulg your monitor not near the keyboard and mouse ports or something like that

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