topic Re: HELP PLEASE!!!! in PCs & Accessories

HELP PLEASE!!!!

squashme — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:16:40 GMT

Hi last night my Vaio got hit with 34 viruses at the same time which I removed with my antivirus but now my operating system wont start everytime I try to boot up it says operating system not found I have tried using my recovery discs to install vista again but with no luck the just wont install it Vaio recovery centre from the discs just installs the windows files but not vista so now I hae a laptop that I cant use with no os on it does anyone have any solutions any help would be great thanks

Re: HELP PLEASE!!!!

Thalamus. — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:35:54 GMT

Hi squashme,

try this..

Remove your recovery disc's from the CD/DVD drive, Restart your Vaio and when you see the Vaio Logo press the F10 key repeatedly, hopefully this will start the recovery process..

Re: HELP PLEASE!!!!

squashme — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:14:56 GMT

No that didnt work still keeps saying operating system not found

Re: HELP PLEASE!!!!

Blencogo — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:03:38 GMT

Hi squashme,

Restart your Vaio and at the first Vaio Logo screen, tap F2 repeatedly to enter the BIOS.

Is your hard drive recognised and shown in the BIOS?

If no then it is likely that the MBR has been destroyed by the viruses. I'm afraid you may need to buy a new hard drive and reinstall everything from the Recovery Discs.

If yes then you should be able to repair the MBR and Boot.ini by using a bootable Vista or XP installation disc and running FIXMBR and FIXBOOT in the Recovery Console.