XP Computer wont boot in any mode

[JamesR929]

So i downloaded corel painter, tried to crack the keygen didnt work, i noticed my C drive only had 600mb of room, i cleaned the disk it said it had about 200,000kbs to free then i clicked ok, turned my head and looked back and it was a blue screen, I cant boot in any mode, i did take out my Hard Drive hooked it up to an external HD housing and can access it that way.. and i do not have a windows installation cd to boot ...any help??

 

[fastco]

Safest thing to do after a possible virus infection (which you probably got from the keygen) is to boot from the Windows CD and reinstall Windows.

 

[JamesR929]

thats the thing i dont have the windows cd :/ i bought my comp from a friend a while back..
i do have access to my hard drive though from my external housing hooked up to my little brothers comp, is there any way to work on it this way???

 

[fastco]

Sorry missed the part where you said you didn't have the Windows CD. What about Ubuntu? Give it a try, it's free and loaded with features and if you need to run a few Windows programs you can install Wine in Ubuntu and run Windows programs. Download the iso, burn it to a cd and boot your computer from the cd. Follow the instructions on the screen to install. Pretty easy to do really.

 

[JamesR929]

no prob.. not really familiar with ubuntu, but it looks pretty promising.. WOW thanks alot! im gonna give it a try.

 

[fastco]

Good luck and there is a ton of info on http://ubuntuforums.org/

 

[JamesR929]

thanks again!