I Removed viruses and now can not boot up

I hope I am posting in the correct spot, forgive me if I am not and please advise where I should post this request for help. thank you. I'm using my wife's computer at the moment to type this.


So my main personal computer that uses XP pro version 2002 and is a 32 bit system..... won't boot fully, after I removed some viruses, discovered by Super Anti spyware

I was using Malewarebytes and frequent scans could not find any viruses, Although All was fine, yet I thought it best to install an additional program to watch for viruses and further protect me where Malware bytes is week ( i don't know where that is, but malwarebytes web site says there are areas) so i installed and ran super anti spyware.
The scan ran and came back with finding viruses and I informed me I would need to reboot to completely remove them. So I rebooted. Now the computer will not fully boot up.!!!

In every attempt, my computer sees the main and slave hard drives and the CD rom and begins to boot but goes to a page where I am asked how I want to start :
either in safe mode or safe mode with networking or start windows normally, or enable boot logging; enable VGA Mode; Debugging mode; Disable auto restart on system failure; Reboot; Return to OS Choices menu; or Last known good configuration.

For a week now, on my own,
I have attempted to start using all the above except for : VGA Mode; Debugging mode; and Disable auto restart on system failure
every time the result is the same, with the boot up stopping at this line that includes the following:
multi disc partion(1)Windowssystem32DriversMup.sys


Then with in seconds the computer returns to the exact same point of starting the boot up process where it looks for the hard drive and CDROM and stuff,? the whole process repeats, never going any further! ???*~X( at wits' end

Now I can get to the bios set up utility. and the boot sequence is :
1st) CD ROM
2nd) floppy
3rd) Hard drive

I even loaded the emergency rescue disc and booted up with that disc installed, the CD ROM spins and the whole process that I explained above begins and repeats and never goes any further than what I described above! so I make no head way! ...bizarre! and frustrating! I'm at my wits' end

So I am not able to boot up into any safe mode or normal windows or see my desk top ... Will you ex-plane in laymen terms, why ? ...I'm very worried.
And how do I begin to repair and get back to normal?

I didn't have a back up system installed yet, my wife and I were going to do that this weekend with the back up hard drive we just bought!
I greatly appreciate your help !
Thank you!

Greetings flywelder and to BleepingComputer's Virus/Trojan/Spyware/Malware Removal forum.

My name is Oh My! and I am here to help you! Now that we are "friends" please call me Gary.

If you would allow me to call you by your first name I would prefer to do that.


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Thank you for your patience thus far. I appreciate the detailed explanation of the symptoms and your efforts thus far.

So I am not able to boot up into any safe mode or normal windows or see my desk top ... Will you ex-plane in laymen terms, why ? ...I'm very worried.

Until we start gathering some information it is difficult to tell you precisely what is causing your problems. I suspect there is a corrupted file which is sort of short circuiting the boot up process and preventing it from continuing on to completion. What we are going to do is one of the only things you didn't try. We are going to tell the computer not to reboot automatically when the error hits. Your computer will stop and display some information about what just happened. That will at least give us a place to start our investigation and tell us what we might need to do.

I am fairly confident we will be able to resolve your issues. We can set aside the worry factor until both of us start to panic! We are nowhere near that yet.

Please do the following for me, if you would.


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Diagnose Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) Errors

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• When you boot your machine, press F8 to list the startup options, exactly as you would if you were trying to enter Safe Mode
• Select "Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure", as shown here:
  
  
  

  

• When your system BSODs, write down the STOP error code, as well as any written out error message back here. The STOP error will always appear, but the message may not.
  
  
  
  
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Things I would like to see in your next reply. Please be sure to

• Blue Screen information

Edited by Oh My, 27 December 2012 - 09:38 AM.
Added explanation

Ok Gary, I'll do what you ask. I may have to write it down and type the results, because currently I can not get on line with the troubled computer and I use my wife's computer to reply. Please wait, and know I'm on it and will reply just as soon as I can.
Thanks for coming on board to fix my computer Gary!

You are most welcome and take your time. Thanks for letting me know the hoops you have to jump through.

Gary, So far I have acquired a external back up drive to which I hope to copy the hard drives files and folders and Docs. just in case it is reformatted. however there is a hold up in this copying... due that I am attempting locate a adapter that is needed to do the copying . What I'm needing is a USB Female A to USB female A connector...aka: a double ended female usb connector so I can join two male USB cables together.

I thought it best to attempt to copy the HD if I can, before I accidentally clear it! ...would I ever be in deep trouble then!

I'll keep you posted
Thanks again!

Greetings flywelder,

Happy New Year!

Thanks for touching base. I think you are very smart to preserve what you have right now before tinkering with anything.

I very much appreciate you taking the time to let me know I should expect a delay. Thanks for being so considerate.

Talk to you whenever you are ready.

Hi Gary,
I am so grateful for your patience! Today, I Just want to keep you up to speed with what is happening here on my end. and that is: nothing. because I'm still waiting for the female to female USB connector to arrive from china. I ordered it over a week ago. it must be on a slow boat from china!...then I can do the back up.
I could not find such a connector in my area and I called and searched a 70 mile radius of my home. ...I could not believe that no radio shack or Home depot or Loews or Best buy carried this device, but it is every where in china!

Soon as I have that device and attempted to copy the HD. I'll be right back here.
Thanks!

Thanks for the update. At least you found it somewhere....

SO here is the latest.
The adapter from china Arrived. However I am still not able to copy or transfer docs.
to the external HDD. rrrrg!
I have been doing some reading on line, and I want to run some ideas / questions past you and hear what you think of these ideas:
Could the trouble with my HDD be bad sectors?

and would running chkdsk drive_letter: /r" into the command prompt, help at all?

but, right now I can't boot to anything that says 'start with command prompt'.

So Is there any means to type that command at any other stage of the boot process?... right now on my own I can only get to bios and the page where I am asked to choose how i want to start windows.

And In order to copy the docs, would it work for me to buy a 3.5 IDE external hard drive case/enclosure. {I just read about those, and apparently a person can slide a IE HDD into it and it makes all the connections and allows you to read the drive, wow that is awesome, and far simpler than what I'm attempting right now to do the same.) I'm watching some external cases on eBay right now, and they end soon.

But would this work if my troubled HDD will not boot up normally?
and would I be able then,...while it is in this external case, to have a computer run a scan disk on the drive and maybe repair any bad sectors..if there are any?

Now meanwhile while your chewing on those questions, I'll share that today,
I was able to get to the blue screen of death. Here is what I saw:

unmountable_Boot_Volume

stop: 0x000000ED (0x89B69900, 0xc0000006, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)


Oh my, ... please tell me, ( maybe you and I will get far enough along tonight so not to worry about this but if not,) .... is it safe to turn off the power to my troubled computer with the Blue screen of death up on the monitor? ....as the computer is in the bed room and the fans in it are too loud ( make to much noise) to be able to fall asleep tonight. Thanks!

Edited by flywelder, 14 January 2013 - 05:56 PM.

Oh and I better ask this question to you before I forget again... as it pertains to bad sectors, and if that has contributed to my troubled HDD I would like to avoid this trouble in the future.

My computer (s) have Glarys utilities installed and periodiclly scans are run.

Q: But will Glarys utilities automatically scan for and repair bad sectors?

or do i periodically need to go to each computer and type in: chkdsk drive_letter: /r" into the run command, that i find under the start button?

Hi flywelder,

Lots of questions there. Before we get into all of that I need to ask you if you have the full Windows XP Installation disk.

I do. However, it is cracked. yeah,....see yrs. back, it was laid on the bed with some other papers as we were moving furniture to paint and my wife fell backwards onto the bed and the pile of papers, when we cleared off the bed we found the cracked disk. I glued it with super glue. but I have never had to use it.

Hi flywelder,

Well I don't think the disk will help us.

Let's check your Master Boot Record first. Please do this.


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Run xPUD From a CD

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Please perform the following steps:

• Download GETxPUD.exe to the desktop of your computer
• Launch GETxPUD.exe
• A new folder will appear on the desktop.
• Open the GETxPUD folder and click on the get&burn.bat
• The program will download xpud_0.9.2.iso, and upon finished will open BurnCDCC ready to burn the image.
• Click on Start and follow the prompts to burn the image to a CD.
• Format your USB then download dumpit to your USB drive
• Remove the USB
• Boot your computer with the CD you just burned
• The computer must be set to boot from the CD
• Gently tap F12 while booting to go into Setup and change Boot Sequence to boot from the CD
• Follow the prompts
• A Welcome to xPUD screen will appear
• Press File
• Expand mnt
• Replace the USB
• sda1,2...usually corresponds to your HDD
• sdb1 is likely your USB
• Click on the folder that represents your USB drive (sdb1 ?)
• Double click on the dumpit file.
• A black window will pop-up and it will dump and zip the MBR to your USB drive.
• Press Enter to exit the black window.
• Click on HOME tab and choose Power Off to turn off xPUD.
• Remove the xpud cd
• Remove the USB device, plug it into a clean computer
• Locate the mbr.zip file in your USB drive and attach it when you reply.

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Things I would like to see in your next reply.

• mbr.zip (attach)

Hi, Forgive my delay in responding, it has been hectic here on my end, with grand babies and their needs. Though, I have info to share with you.
A friend has loaned me their external hard shell case that I can slide the HDD into. SO I did. I connected it to my wife's computer. The wife's computer recognized the HDD. Now I am able to see the documents and folders that are on the HDD.
Does knowing this change your instructions any?
Or do you want me to re-connect it to the computer it was in and I go ahead and get GetxPUD.exe and run it?

Also, in the instructions, I don't understand why I am to utilize a USB ( is this also known as a flash drive / thumb drive??) if I am to burn the program to a CD. ??? Do I need both or just one and which one? I'm certain the confusion lies with me, I also need detailed instructions...unfortunately.


The program will download xpud_0.9.2.iso, and upon finished will open BurnCDCC ready to burn the image.
Click on Start and follow the prompts to burn the image to a CD.
Format your USB then download dumpit to your USB drive
Remove the USB
Boot your computer with the CD you just burned
The computer must be set to boot from the CD

Hi flywelder,

No forgiveness necessary.

It is not really you, these steps are more complicated than most and are inherently confusing. The first time I saw these instructions my head hurt!

What we want to do is get to some information that is not normally shown and having access to the hard drive like you do now unfortunately doesn't help us. The easiest way for us to do that is to have you put back the original hard drive and follow the steps.

Also, in the instructions, I don't understand why I am to utilize a USB ( is this also known as a flash drive / thumb drive??) if I am to burn the program to a CD. ??? Do I need both or just one and which one? I'm certain the confusion lies with me, I also need detailed instructions...unfortunately.

Yes, what I am referring to is a flash drive/thumb drive. And yes we will be using both a CD and the flash drive.

Basically what we are going to do is this. Create the CD as instructed. This will give us a separate operating system to launch that does not include Windows. See the thing is what we need is some information about your Windows Operating System BEFORE it loads up. Using the CD we are creating will allow us to do that.

Now for the flash drive. The reason we need this is because we need it to hold the dumpit program we are downloading. That program is going to be used to get us the information we need.

So basically this is how it is going to go:

• We will download xPUD to the computer
• We will then create (burn) the xPUD CD which is actually the Operating System your computer will launch without touching Windows (that is why we boot the computer from the CD)
• We will download the dumpit program onto the flash drive
• With the flash drive inserted into the sick computer we are going to launch the dumpit program and it is going to look into your hard drive for the information we want. It will automatically save it as a file on the flash drive
• Then you will be able to plug the flash drive into a good computer and attach the file for me to evaluate.

If this is still confusing please let me know. These are complicated steps and unfortunately there is no easy way around the complications.

Edited by Oh My, 17 January 2013 - 07:13 PM.