Hello, I am putting this in the hardware section because this is where I now feel the problem lies, if not I am sorry feel free to move my thread.
Yesterday my AV removed a file which was a system file for a nvidia product nvata.sys and would not boot up. In order to fix this I first tried to repair my windows XP through the disk, and then replaced the file using the recover console on the XP disk.
This has now resolved that problem but windows cannot now finish the repair of OS; it loads the repair, loads the windows logo, goes to a black screen where i can see my mouse and then reboots. This is a continuous loop, I think this is due to a hardware problem rather than software because 1 I cannot see it blue screening or any error messages and 2 even when the computer turned off my mouse is staying illuminated as are other peripherals.
Any ideas? I am not against reformatting my OS but first need to get my documents off it so just one boot would be sufficient.
Thank you
Yesterday my AV removed a file which was a system file for a nvidia product nvata.sys and would not boot up. In order to fix this I first tried to repair my windows XP through the disk, and then replaced the file using the recover console on the XP disk.
This has now resolved that problem but windows cannot now finish the repair of OS; it loads the repair, loads the windows logo, goes to a black screen where i can see my mouse and then reboots. This is a continuous loop, I think this is due to a hardware problem rather than software because 1 I cannot see it blue screening or any error messages and 2 even when the computer turned off my mouse is staying illuminated as are other peripherals.
Any ideas? I am not against reformatting my OS but first need to get my documents off it so just one boot would be sufficient.
Thank you