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Tech Clinic / Unable to install win xp

« on: May 31, 2009, 02:25:53 AM »

It is an IDE connection.

I just tried connecting both old and new DVD drives together and to my strange it worked. Machine started giving me the option of
press any key to boot from cd. Can you understand the reason behind this sudden change?

new- secondary master
old - secondary slave.

Do you still need answer to other questions of the previous post?

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Tech Clinic / Unable to install win xp

« on: May 30, 2009, 06:49:29 PM »

What boot sequebce i should try generally??

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Tech Clinic / Unable to install win xp

« on: May 30, 2009, 06:36:40 PM »

see i had done clean installation around 17-18 of this month. After that only laptop's infected data was copied to desktop. I dont think any other malicious data was copied or anyhow entered desktop.

New windows was installed through this new drive itself. But that time also this new drive was not giving the option "press any key to boot form cd" even after setting the cd/dvd as the first boot device. fter trying multiple[20-30] time different order, somehow this option came up ans i could manage to install windows. But after that it has never given me this option.

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Tech Clinic / Unable to install win xp

« on: May 30, 2009, 06:18:03 PM »

I have installed windows multiple times before. I still have older dvd drive but i am not sure system will detect it. you want me to try it???

Jumper settings are set to master and even end side of cable is attached to it. Bios does detect  it.

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Tech Clinic / Unable to install win xp

« on: May 30, 2009, 05:52:48 PM »

nope. that cd drive is no more working which is the reason why i had to buy new one.

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Tech Clinic / Unable to install win xp

« on: May 30, 2009, 05:29:36 PM »

yes, i did complete scan too.

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Tech Clinic / Unable to install win xp

« on: May 30, 2009, 05:21:39 PM »

There were no infected file dettected. Because of which it is not allowing me to generate log file.
Is it normal?

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Tech Clinic / Unable to install win xp

« on: May 30, 2009, 04:10:11 PM »

I am sorry about this mix up. My idea of starting a new topic was just because i simply wanted install windows on one of my computer
(that being a desktop,but that is not imp) and i was unable to succeed so i asked for a help. I request to again go through my first post under this topic to solve problem of booting from cd.

I am sending you the cureIt log in few minutes.

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Tech Clinic / Unable to install win xp

« on: May 30, 2009, 03:46:33 PM »

win on my desktop is totally corrupted, i cant acccess it. If at all i try to start windows, machine restarts midway everytime. Even the last known settings thatt worked option didnt work.

So i guess we will have to install XP again.

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Tech Clinic / Virus: need help

« on: May 30, 2009, 03:33:58 PM »

ok sir. I am sorry about this.

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Tech Clinic / Unable to install win xp

« on: May 30, 2009, 03:32:59 PM »

Since i could see every bit of data i had that laptop, I copied data more than those  pics including few exe files on the pen drive and before taking its backup on my desktop i scanned it through avg and moved infected file to the chest.

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Tech Clinic / Unable to install win xp

« on: May 30, 2009, 03:28:41 PM »

Yes, that is correct. That is the reason behind starting a new topic.
I hope i have taken correct step..

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Tech Clinic / Virus: need help

« on: May 30, 2009, 03:25:59 PM »

[quote name=\'guestolo\' post=\'463159\' date=\'May 31 2009, 01:38 AM\']Make sure that you scan any removeable drives that you backed up to
Such as your Flash drives[/quote]
I have formatted that flash drive.

Let me know the outcome, I take it you don't have a Hidden partition for a Recovery partition, is that correct?

I did not understand this part.

Can you start a new topic and begin with a Hijackthis log for your laptop, let's make sure it's clean

I will wait for you to explain me the above part and then i will start new topic. is that okay?

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Tech Clinic / Unable to install win xp

« on: May 30, 2009, 03:22:46 PM »

No i am facing now problem with my desktop, the other computer, which seemd to have been infected while taking backup of infected data from laptop. One of the windows file on a desktop machine got corrupted which ultimately stopped me using that copy of windows. So now i was thinking of installing fresh copy of windows. I am using my laptop now to reply.

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Tech Clinic / Virus: need help

« on: May 30, 2009, 02:47:24 PM »

Before installing XP I formatted every drive. Copied back all the data from the desktop. Now i havent seen any virus through avast antivirus.

Shall I check with any other antivirus? What shall i do to cross check that my laptop is virus free and running healthy?

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Tech Clinic / Unable to install win xp

« on: May 30, 2009, 02:35:48 PM »

I wanted to install win xp on my desktop but machine is not allowing me to boot from cd.

I have tried ordering boot sequence in many different ways, some cd/dvd option first and sometime last out of 3 possible ones.
But in none if the cases it gave the option to "press any key to boot from cd".

I have recently installed new dvd-rw and after that machine is not giving me above mentioned option. I have never faced such problem with my old dvd drive.

comp spec:
Processor: intel pentium 4 2.0 GHz
RAM: 1 GB
Motherboard: mercury kob 845gl ndsmx

Can anyone identify the reason why this is happening? new dvd-rw or something else?

Your help will be highly appreciated.

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Tech Clinic / Virus: need help

« on: May 28, 2009, 01:15:58 AM »

I have taken back up of all imp data including those pictures. Thank you very very much for helping me retrieve those pictures.

Now, shall i format the whole hard drive and do a clean installation of win xp??
Is this enough or do i have to take any other measure before installing xp?

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Tech Clinic / Virus: need help

« on: May 26, 2009, 01:32:21 PM »

When i double clicked on the sda5 icon on desktop, it displayed all the contents of then D: including folder containing those pictures. I didnt get any virus as such but i could not see contents of the folder containing pictures on the D: i.e. sda5. There are in all 3 partition.

The read and write permissions should be given to everyone or the owner only??

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Tech Clinic / Virus: need help

« on: May 26, 2009, 03:08:50 AM »

Hey sorry, couldnt reply yesterday.

Im ready with knoppix. I inserted the cd and it worked well. I can see the drives on desktop itself. I can even see the contents of these drives(folder containing those pictures). No problem of mounting and all exactly as you said but i cant access them. Tell me how to retrieve them..

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Tech Clinic / Virus: need help

« on: May 25, 2009, 12:58:52 AM »

[quote name=\'guestolo\' post=\'463033\' date=\'May 25 2009, 10:54 AM\']But try this
In Computer, right click on your drive and choose to UNMOUNT volume

When it's be unmounted, close Computer
Then open Terminal

Type the following in

sudo /bin/bash

Hit Enter

Then the following
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/disk -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222

Hit Enter

close Terminal afterwards
Open Places>>Computer>>and try and open the drive

If that doesn't work, try the Knoppix route, you'll have it done a lot quicker than I can reply back[/quote]

This trick did not work. After executing the second command, error stated drive could not be mounted and so the places->computer also showed unable to mount the selected drive.

Just to remind you I did this after restarting the computer.