Smart hdd virus

[chaslang]

Please bootup again with the G-Parted CD and tell me what you see listed for Partitions. Also which ones are Active, Hidden, Boot,....etc.

[dogmoat]

I have the following partitions listed
partition file system label size used unused flags
/dev/sda1 fat 16 DELLUTILITY 100 mb 338kb 99.67kb diag
/dev/sda2 ntfs Recovery 14.65gb 9.43gb 5.22gb
/dev/sda3 ntfs OS 581.41gb --- ---- boot
unallocated unallocated 15mb

there is a warning flag by the OS partition
error says ntfs is inconsistent. Run Chkdsk/f on Windows then reboot it TWICE! Unable to read the contents of this file system! Because some of the operations may be unavailable.

[chaslang]

If you change the boot flag to the 100MB partition, what happens?

[dogmoat]

upon boot it asks for a command
C:\>

[chaslang]

At that C: prompt, type the below and hit enter, tell me if any problems are detected. This may take a while to run. Note DO NOT use the /f option! Just enter it as I show below.

chkdsk

[dogmoat]

It says "bad command or file name"

[chaslang]

That's what I suspected. At the C: prompt what happens if you type the below and hit enter?

D:

Does the prompt change to show drive D? If so, what is the full prompt? Also if it changes to drive D, what happens if you type dir and hit enter?

[dogmoat]

upon command
D:
"invalid drive specified"
the prompt stays on drive C.

[thisisu]

@Chaslang
Just a heads up that the fix you posted here was incorrectly run.

The user may need to toggle the 581.41gb partition inactive and then back to active.

[chaslang]

Originally Posted by thisisu

@Chaslang
Just a heads up that the fix you posted here was incorrectly run.

The user may need to toggle the 581.41gb partition inactive and then back to active.

Ah, good catch! Thanks thisisu!

dogmoat, you need to go back and run the fix in message # 19 properly. You were not booted into the System Recovery Environment. And as noted by thisisu, you may need to first make the 581.41 GB partition inactive and then toggle back to Active.

[dogmoat]

I am still getting the error msg while trying to boot in OS (581.41 partition)

says "windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fixthe problem:
1. insert your windows installaton disc and restart your computer.
2 choose your language settings, and then click next.
3. Click repair your computer.

If you do not have this disc, contact your systems admin or computer mftr for assistance.

File: \Boot\BCD
status: 0xc000000f
info: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data."

[chaslang]

Did you rerun the fixlist.txt fix with FRST? If so, please attach the new resulting Fixlog.txt

[dogmoat]

fixlog.txt is attached

[thisisu]

Make sure you are attaching the correct (latest) log, this one still tells us that the fix was run incorrectly.

ATTENTION: THE TOOL IS NOT RUN FROM RECOVERY ENVIRONMENT AND WILL NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY.

Refer back to post #15 for instructions on how to get into the recovery environment / System Recovery Options.

[dogmoat]

try this one

[chaslang]

Okay is there any change in the ability to boot up Windows.

[dogmoat]

No-- I still cannot boot into Windows; I get the same error msg

[chaslang]

Try doing a Startup Repair from the System Recovery Options. See how we booted in message # 15 but this time choose Startup Repair not Command Prompt.

More info on Startup Repair is in the below although this mentions booting from the Windows 7 DVD instead of the built in Recover Options.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

[dogmoat]

sorry, that did not work either

[chaslang]

Please see message # 15 again and boot up to the System Recovery Command prompt. When you get to the command prompt, just type dir and hit enter. What do you see? Also what is the prompt that you see when you first get to the command prompt?