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Windows Vista Vista BSOD while Booting

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by BrynTheSkits, 2009/10/01.

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    BrynTheSkits

    BrynTheSkits Inactive Thread Starter

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    First off I have to say this is entirely my fault, I downloaded and opened a exe without fully knowing and making sure what it was (I almost never do this but I paid for this slip up).

    OK, so today I was surfing the net when my mate asked me for a serial to a game he was having trouble getting to work, so I (stupidly) agreed to help. I downloaded a exe file from a dodgy site and opened it. Once I opened it it came up with the CMD and a command line saying the path to a file i suspect it created in a temp directory

    3 seconds later my computer blue screened and rebooted, it then blue screened about 15 seconds through the loading bar screen. I tried to start in safe mode but even that blue screened (the safemode boot screen stopped at crcdisk.sys, but I hear this is nothing special as it is the last sys file to load anyway).

    Vista Startup Repair found nothing and fixed nothing, I then accessed the CMD through the Start Up repair thing and tried bootrec /fixboot, /fixmbr and /rebuildbcd but those did nothing either (I found it strange that it said something about finding 0 vista installs or something like that).

    I have tried everything I have knowledge of but I have no idea what to do, I do not have a vista install disc only a business version upgrade disc. My version of Vista is Ultimate with SP1 installed on a ASUS N50v 2.54GHz, 4GB RAM, SATA 500GB HHD, 1GB GeForce 9650M GT.

    Sorry for the long story but I know explaining everything in full is helpful, any help with this would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
     
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    Arie

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    See if you can get it to boot via Last Known Good Configuration, which is also one of the startup options.
     
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    BrynTheSkits

    BrynTheSkits Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have tried that along with Safe Mode with Networking and Safe Mode with Command Prompt, all blue screened as described.

    Also I am able to remove my hard drive and insert it into a SATA to USB external hard drive case if you ask for any dump files, boot logs etc
     
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    Arie

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    I doubt you'll find any dump files. I would save any data off the drive, wipe it (format) and reinstall Vista. You most likely got yourself infected with some nasty malware.

    If you hook the drive up to another system, take precaution not to infect that one too.
     
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    BrynTheSkits

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    Ah was afraid I would have to do that, I will ring up some freinds and see if any have a Ultimate disc somewhere, thanks.
     

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