Did some cleaning last week to speed it up, WON T REBOOT after accidental unplug :-(

Hi,

I have a Sony Vaio PCV-W101, intel Celeron 1.2 GHz, 256 RAM, « S3 Graphics card” if I remember (with 64Mo devoted i think), 40Go Hard Disk partitioned in C: (15Go) and D: (25Go).
Windows XP SP2 Japanese edition.
It’s 4.1/2 y.o.

In June, my computer was getting too slow for my taste, so I went over the topics Malware removals and How to protect yourself from malware; in the process my computer refused to reboot and I finally had to reinstall XP.

I have NAV2002 (Japanese edition) that I most often shut down; Zone Alarm free version and I run ad-aware (free version) occasionally and let update XP update itself. ADSL 8Mo.

OK, I multitask too much for my 256RAM (yes I must upgrade it! They didn’t t have this kind of RAM in Japan in June but they have it here in.) so last week I followed the “My computer is too slow” topic and did everything (except going through the malware removal thread again), saved a copy of the former registry, deleted some entries from winservice (if I remember correctly. Including some VAIO programs) etc., and I ran PerfectDisc on C:, including on the XP segments as recommended by perfect disk. I began to defragment D: but stopped it after 2 hours and didn t finish it afterwards. It improved the performance of the computer a bit.

This week I went at another site and made few other changes on winservice, nothing special.
The big change happened when I killed a task that was called something like “IOWLCFG3 through the Task Manager. It had a huge impact on the performance of my system, suddenly the CPU could breathe and I didn’ t have to reboot my computer once a day or more and use of Swap files seemed to decrease a lot as well.

This morning I unplugged my PC by accident, and since then it won t boot.
I tried the Safe Mode, Safe Mode and Network; Safe Mode and Command Prompt, and the other 2 as well (these are in Chinese Japanese so I don t understand much of what they are. One is something like “Former” settings??, the other one “Run Windows”?.
When I try one of the 3 “Safe” boot modes, I see, for a short moment , a line at the bottom of the screen that reads something like “multidisk§rdisk§partition§andthensomedriversorotherfilesthere.
Each time it sends me back to that same screen, after showing the Windows logo screen, the Sony logo screen and a screen with many lines for a blink of a second that has info such as how many drives, cpu and I don t know what other numbers.

Do you have an idea of what happened (so that it doesn’t t happen again)?
And, more important, could you help me booting my computer?
I would really like NOT to reinstall XP because I would loose all my data. This VAIO is intermediate between DeskTop and Laptop, and when I cleaned the coolers in June, I saw that the HardDisk was not really accessible and that there was a kind of white electronic rubber plastic band through which it seemed to communicate with the rest of the computer. That rubber band didn’t t seem to be removable, in other words, I cannot transfer the content of my hard disk into another Hard Disk.

So it would really help if I could get my pc to boot without reinstalling….

I’ ll greatly appreciate your help!

copernic