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04-09-2010, 10:41 PM
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Repairing XP Media Center 2005
So I'm working on someone's computer...
...they had over 100 viruses which I cleaned up but now the computer won't boot. When I boot into safe mode it bluescreens, when I boot normally it loads almost to the user login screen before it pops up with an error saying that the file is not a valid windows image and stops completely. I think one of the viruses changed where the registry looks for the image but I'm concerned that if I changed that back another problem will surface and I'll spend countless hours going through the registry searching for errors. I don't have the XP MCE 2005 disc but I believe the hard drive has a recovery partition on it. I'm just not sure how to access it. It's a Dell Dimension E310. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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04-10-2010, 12:09 AM
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Press Ctrl+F11 immediately on startup to access system recovery.
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04-11-2010, 08:38 PM
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thanks, that did the trick!
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