Is your dog's unusual barking a secret code for something mysterious?

[Ain't Nobody Here]

After another stupid piece of malware found its way onto OH's PC (and my previous method of getting rid of a similar one didn't work) I've been trying to repair Windows from the boot disk.

 

All goes well until it decides it needs an Nvidia driver but the mouse and keyboard stop responding at that point so I can't follow the command .

 

I've been trying all day to sort this out and I'm ready to throw the darn thing out of the window .

 

Any experience of this? I've obviously tried Google and it is a known problem but I can't find a relevant workaround. I've tried difference mice and keyboards even though I know the original ones are working as they work right up till the dialogue box opens.

 

Help .

[sjp]

it sounds like the drivers for the key board and mouse are damaged have you tried deleting them then restarting the machine that said knowning XP it'll end up being a reformat job

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Thanks, but I don't think it can be that as they both work perfectly well right up till the dialogue box for the required driver.

 

I can't load Windows (even in safe mode) as it's in the middle of a repair - which it won't let me complete .

[gongladosh]

Nasty.

 

If it won't boot, you could spend ages trying to fix it (unsuccessfully), the lazy way to sort it would be to:

 

- create a new partition from some spare/blank space

- install windows onto it

- set it to be the partition you boot from

 

at this point you'll be able to read data from the old partition

 

- copy all of the data from the damaged partition across to the new partition

- junk the damaged installation and reformat the damaged partition so you can use it as blank space

 

One handy hint in case it happens again (you may or may not already have this already) is this - the main reason people recommend that you should have Windows on one partition/drive and all of your data on another is so you can rebuild everything as above with minimal disruption.

 

Hope this helps (I'm not trying to do an egg-sucking course - I'm just not sure how OK you are with IT)!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Thanks for that . Although I'm happy to have a go at trying to fix things I'm not much of an expert so it's all useful stuff!

[gongladosh]

probs worth me adding - when I say 'copy all of the data across', what I mean is -

 

as you're going to junk the old (damaged) partition, you'll want to copy off all of your personal files before you get rid of that partition.

 

i.e.

MP3s

JPGs

Text files

Word Documents etc

Anything in My Documents

Anything you saved on your desktop

Any web browser favourites you have saved

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I've decided to get a guy in to fix it. It's probably needing a good clear out in any case and I would just spend hours trying to fix it and then making things worse and having to get a guy in anyway.

 

Thanks for your helpful posts though .