laptop trouble:
Now it looks like my laptop is hosed. I was trying to use spybot, and I only deleted things that were clearly spyware in easy mode, and I rebooted and something to do with the kernal is messed up.
So, now I am not sure what to do. I expect my daughter has gotten a virus on there, as it was acting really strangely anyway as that was why I was doing the cleaning.
I see the options as:
1. get a new hard drive, take that one out and access it as a data drive to get the data off it.
2. Get a copy of XP that isn't part of a formatting/recovery cycle like the PC came with. I never liked those!
Either way, I see it as costing a couple of hundred bucks likely.
Better ideas guys?
Also, anyone know how to get to a hard drive typically on a Sony laptop? Is the battery in the back or under the keyboard from the front? I'm really no laptop specialist and will likely take this in for service anyway, but if anyone has any ideas, great.
It has Home XP on it, so I guess if I could try a restore, I'd need home, not Pro or the upgrade to try to repair it, right?
Then again, what happens if I try to install 98 or 2000 on the laptop without FORMATTING? If I could get in, then I could extract our data, then format it for XP.
I own 98 and 2000, just not XP except for this extracting recovery deal.
Lex
Now it looks like my laptop is hosed. I was trying to use spybot, and I only deleted things that were clearly spyware in easy mode, and I rebooted and something to do with the kernal is messed up.
So, now I am not sure what to do. I expect my daughter has gotten a virus on there, as it was acting really strangely anyway as that was why I was doing the cleaning.
I see the options as:
1. get a new hard drive, take that one out and access it as a data drive to get the data off it.
2. Get a copy of XP that isn't part of a formatting/recovery cycle like the PC came with. I never liked those!
Either way, I see it as costing a couple of hundred bucks likely.
Better ideas guys?
Also, anyone know how to get to a hard drive typically on a Sony laptop? Is the battery in the back or under the keyboard from the front? I'm really no laptop specialist and will likely take this in for service anyway, but if anyone has any ideas, great.
It has Home XP on it, so I guess if I could try a restore, I'd need home, not Pro or the upgrade to try to repair it, right?
Then again, what happens if I try to install 98 or 2000 on the laptop without FORMATTING? If I could get in, then I could extract our data, then format it for XP.
I own 98 and 2000, just not XP except for this extracting recovery deal.
Lex
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