On 10/29/2012 02:41 PM, Andrew Z wrote:
since the weather is perfect t for drinking and catching up on all the
little things that ive been procrastinated to do, i decided to revive
the virus ridden laptop.
That's some "alienware" from Dell . it doesn't have a cd/dvd . So the
only option is to boot from usb stick.
i have win7 iso and followed http://reboot.pro/8381/.
yet the only result on the screen i see is "SYSLINUX 4.02 20120 .... "
and black screen.
Anything i need to be aware of ?
Any feedback is welcomed.
AZ
Hi Andrew,
I do not know about the usb stick thing, but have
you thought of borrowing someone's USB external
DVD drive?
Also, if you have a boot sector virus and you intend
to wipe anyway, this always works for me:
THIS WILL RUIN YOUR PARTITION TABLE and all your data!
Boot off a live CD:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 count=100
I have had to do this just to get the Windows Installer
(XP and W7) to recognize a hard drive that had a boot
sector virus several times. (Live CD rescues Windows yet
again!)
-T
