Computer won't boot in normal or safe mode

[mmarrs]

So, last night I was on my laptop (Dell Latitude D620) and got a little malware pop up in the bottom right of the screen. I knew from recent previous experience that this was a baaad thing.

I started exiting out of programs, preparing to do a system restore, or try something to prevent a complete virus takeover.
Things started to freeze, and in a panic I manually shut off the computer. Then, when I tried to start it up, I get the Dell screen, but after that there was just a black screen with a white lined bar at the bottom, which seemed to start loading something, but then stopped.

I tried booting in safe mode, and when I do that, the about 7 lines of the programming or whatever appear, as usual, but then it suddenly freezes and won't continue.

Can anyone help me? Am I beyond help? What did I do to my computer!?

Also, I run Windows XP. I don't know if this matters, but I'm pretty sure Windows was doing an update when I turned it off, not sure if that would make things worse perhaps.

Thanks for the help!

 

[Tedster]

boot directly off your os cd. if you have severe malware, you may need to reformat and reinstall.

 

[LookinAround]

To at least try to get access to your data see [post=766270]How to recover your folders/files when Windows won’t boot[/post]

 

[mmarrs]

I found the operating system disk, but when I hit F12 and say boot from disk, the same problem occurs:
the white dotted loading bar at the bottom of the screen loads a little, but then stops. What should I do?

 

[mmarrs]

Ok, I have been able to get into the windows operating system disk.
I went into Windows Recovery Console and ran chkdsk. It found something corrupted or wrong, so I ran chkdsk /r which I think fixes that?
When I restarted, I still don't get past the dell screen.

I tried booting from a Ultimate Boot disk, and that didn't seem to work either. When I said to boot to a drive, the screen just went black.

Any recommendations?

 

[tdurbin]

mmarrs, You might want to try running Malwarebytes' from a Linux liveCD. I would post a link for you if I could... The article can be found at nwitechsupport.com under the title:

Windows will not boot, regular nor safe mode, what to do?

Good luck.