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   lordmaynoth Private First Class

   I did a backup and a reformat recently for a computer that was so severely infected I removed thousands of viruses from but it rendered it unbootable as many main system files were not cleanable. Is there a procedure for restoring windows system files in a scenario like that?

    

   lordmaynoth, Feb 23, 2010

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   TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

   Moved to software forum.

    

   TimW, Feb 24, 2010

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   DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

   Hi
   
   Could do a dirty/repair install of Windows, as in over the top of itself, thus doesnt remove any installed apps, updates, settinsg etc
   
   Like this or XP http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
   
   But if too badly damaged best option sit to see is you can recover any needed files (docs, images etc) then clean install.

    

   DavidGP, Feb 24, 2010

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