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Lucern · 09-10-2005, 06:26 PM

This is just a standard tech thread.

The issue: My computer needs to be reformatted, on account of a nasty trojan downloader I picked up somewhere. I've reformatted many times in the past, so that's not really an issue. This host of viruses have disabled some things I've never seen before, like the ability to "Save as" in any document or even in a window, or to click on a hyperlink outside of a browser. It is also preventing me from accessing my Add/Remove programs. Now, if I've read accurately online, I need to access Add/Remove programs to make a boot disk that will let me reformat. See my problem?

I wasted the better part of an hour scouring the area for a PC with XP on it that I might accomplish this on, but to no avail. Campus computers are all 2000 for some reason. People I randomly approached were fearful (understandably) of the disk i was brandishing being laden with viruses. Someone actually did let me use their XP computer, and I just plain didn't see where or how to make such a boot disk there.

Unlike slightly newer machines, I cannot seem to just boot from the CD-ROM, even by setting the BIOS to start with the CD-ROM before the hard disk. It doesn't seem to give me the chance to boot from it or do so automatically. It just goes straight to a very unstable windows environment. This may be because of my cd-rom setup, where I've got one living and one dead drive, and I don't recall the setup I did there, frankly. A boot disk would bypass this, ideally.

If it's at all relevant, I'm running a Dell, P4 1.6 Ghz, Windows XP Home, 1 G SD RAM, and I can't afford a new one in the near future [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Oh, and I found program that wanted to make "Setup Boot Disks" - from 6 floppy disks? Well I only have 5 lol. Maybe my answer is in a measly floppy disk - but I'm not sure this program is creating what I want, because I recall doing it from just one disk...

Any help is appreciated.

09-10-2005, 06:26 PM	#1
Lucern Quintesson Join Date: August 28, 2004 Location: the middle of Michigan Age: 43 Posts: 1,011	This is just a standard tech thread. The issue: My computer needs to be reformatted, on account of a nasty trojan downloader I picked up somewhere. I've reformatted many times in the past, so that's not really an issue. This host of viruses have disabled some things I've never seen before, like the ability to "Save as" in any document or even in a window, or to click on a hyperlink outside of a browser. It is also preventing me from accessing my Add/Remove programs. Now, if I've read accurately online, I need to access Add/Remove programs to make a boot disk that will let me reformat. See my problem? I wasted the better part of an hour scouring the area for a PC with XP on it that I might accomplish this on, but to no avail. Campus computers are all 2000 for some reason. People I randomly approached were fearful (understandably) of the disk i was brandishing being laden with viruses. Someone actually did let me use their XP computer, and I just plain didn't see where or how to make such a boot disk there. Unlike slightly newer machines, I cannot seem to just boot from the CD-ROM, even by setting the BIOS to start with the CD-ROM before the hard disk. It doesn't seem to give me the chance to boot from it or do so automatically. It just goes straight to a very unstable windows environment. This may be because of my cd-rom setup, where I've got one living and one dead drive, and I don't recall the setup I did there, frankly. A boot disk would bypass this, ideally. If it's at all relevant, I'm running a Dell, P4 1.6 Ghz, Windows XP Home, 1 G SD RAM, and I can't afford a new one in the near future [img]tongue.gif[/img] Oh, and I found program that wanted to make "Setup Boot Disks" - from 6 floppy disks? Well I only have 5 lol. Maybe my answer is in a measly floppy disk - but I'm not sure this program is creating what I want, because I recall doing it from just one disk... Any help is appreciated.