Greetings!
I am new to this board but I did not know where else to turn for information on my problem.
Currently I am have the disk boot failure insert system disk problem. Basically, the scenario is as follows:
Boyfriend downloads a file on my computer while I am at work. He doesn't really have any cares about system security and whatnot so he opens it carelessly. It ends up giving my computer a virus/spyware that causes severe pop-ups of both spyware and windows system files.
I tell him that I'll look at it when I get home the next day, but alas, he decides he needs to try to fix it. He doesn't have too much knowledge in computer repair and so he just decides to use Window's restore to a previous date feature (all of dates had been erased except for the time that he opened the virus which was the day before). He does this and after a reboot that's when he gets the disk boot failure message. And so he gives up. (Thanks alot)
I try my luck at it, thinking to just format the hard drive but when it comes to installing windows, it says something like hard disk not found, run a diagnostics test. Well I am not really that knowledgable about that kind of thing so the next thing I think to do is remove my hard drive and place it into one of my old computers to see if I could format it. I formated it and it worked on my old computer, however, when I put it in my new computer, it says the exact same thing. This allowed me to reason that it probably isn't my hard drive that is causing the problem.
My brother has been looking at it as well, since he knows quite a bit about computers. He looked at the BIOS and said it looked ok to him..
That was the only other thing that I could think of that would be the problem.
So as of right now, I am not sure what I am supposed to do. He said he would talk to his instructor about it tomorrow but I am just wandering if anyone here has ideas.
I'm not sure of the computer's hardware since it was just a working hand-me-down from my brother that I dove right into...I do know the following though:
Western Digital 80gb 7200rpm SATA-3.0gb/s (master)
Western Digital 160gb " "
Not sure what the CD-ROM is, just a DVD-R
Motherboard is an ASUS, my brother can't remember due to how old the computer is (3 years+)
Any other information I can provide eventually when he feels like finding the information for me. -_-
I have not had any problems with it before the download incident.
Any information is MUCH appreciated. Sorry I can't be more specific as to the cause and components. They are the two things I don't have more information on. Thanks~
I am new to this board but I did not know where else to turn for information on my problem.
Currently I am have the disk boot failure insert system disk problem. Basically, the scenario is as follows:
Boyfriend downloads a file on my computer while I am at work. He doesn't really have any cares about system security and whatnot so he opens it carelessly. It ends up giving my computer a virus/spyware that causes severe pop-ups of both spyware and windows system files.
I tell him that I'll look at it when I get home the next day, but alas, he decides he needs to try to fix it. He doesn't have too much knowledge in computer repair and so he just decides to use Window's restore to a previous date feature (all of dates had been erased except for the time that he opened the virus which was the day before). He does this and after a reboot that's when he gets the disk boot failure message. And so he gives up. (Thanks alot)
I try my luck at it, thinking to just format the hard drive but when it comes to installing windows, it says something like hard disk not found, run a diagnostics test. Well I am not really that knowledgable about that kind of thing so the next thing I think to do is remove my hard drive and place it into one of my old computers to see if I could format it. I formated it and it worked on my old computer, however, when I put it in my new computer, it says the exact same thing. This allowed me to reason that it probably isn't my hard drive that is causing the problem.
My brother has been looking at it as well, since he knows quite a bit about computers. He looked at the BIOS and said it looked ok to him..
That was the only other thing that I could think of that would be the problem.
So as of right now, I am not sure what I am supposed to do. He said he would talk to his instructor about it tomorrow but I am just wandering if anyone here has ideas.
I'm not sure of the computer's hardware since it was just a working hand-me-down from my brother that I dove right into...I do know the following though:
Western Digital 80gb 7200rpm SATA-3.0gb/s (master)
Western Digital 160gb " "
Not sure what the CD-ROM is, just a DVD-R
Motherboard is an ASUS, my brother can't remember due to how old the computer is (3 years+)
Any other information I can provide eventually when he feels like finding the information for me. -_-
I have not had any problems with it before the download incident.
Any information is MUCH appreciated. Sorry I can't be more specific as to the cause and components. They are the two things I don't have more information on. Thanks~
