Worked through the cleaning process, still problems.

Hi

I started having problems the day before yesterday. I got bluescreens with the message:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
*nvatabus.sys - address .. ... .

Yesterday when i fired up my computer Everything was screwed. I got this message at start up saying (translated from Swedish) "One of the files in the register was restored with help from a log or an alternative version". My startmeny was gone. And i could hardly do anything.

A friend of mine recommended to try superantispyware. When trying to install I got the message "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation". I googled it and that's how I ended up here.

I've now completed (kind of) your cleaning guide with the help of my other computer as this is the first time I even can access firefox.
I did have some problems on the way though.

Superantispyware was not installed due to the above mentioned reason. I also tried the guide to enable windows installer, but that folder didn't exist. I tried to enable windowsinstaller from msconfig, but after restart it was stopped again.

Malwarebytes was also unsuccessful. I got some error message of probably old version. Downloaded the newest version, installed it with no errors BUT the installation folder was empty.

Combofix, now this is when things started to happen. Combofix passed with no errors (except that system restore was not detected, but successfully installed). After this I actually got my startmeny back and was able to open copy paste and such (haven't done anything else).

MGtools passed successfully.

Now here I am. Still getting this registry message when logging to windows.

Ps: Don't know what caused this. Was like this after my girl had been here (easy to blame her ).

Anyway I'd appreciate any help and i look forward for your replies.

Regards

Sisu

 

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Hi, thanks for your reply. I've been busy the last days and haven't had the chance to try solving this until now.

I do have a bootable XP CD with SP2, somewhere...

I followed the steps you mentioned.

After resetting the registry I got rid of the message that kept popping up every time I logged in to windows.

I successfully installed SuperAntiSpyware, but it seems to have trouble finishing the scan on C:. It Scans my other drives with no infections found. But when i include C: it kind of freezes while scanning some (different ones every time) files. I can move the mouse but that's about it. And only thing that helps is a restart using the reset button.
*After these restarts it can take ages for windows to load if it loads at all.*

I installed Malwarebytes and scanned successfully with no infections. See attached log.

 

Was just about to try this last thing you suggested. But windows wont start.

When i try safe mode i get the following message:

multi<0>disk<0>rdisk<0>partition<0>WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrn1.exe

......

Btw what files are larger than usual? I can check the size of them on another computer with swedish xp.

 

After the part where it chooses wich OS it will run the screen just goes black and nothing happens from there. At the moment There's 2 options in that list.
microsoft windows recovery console
microsoft windows xp

I've found my bootable cd.

Now when i try to boot in safe mode same thing happens as when i try to boot in normal mode.

Maybe i should move my raid0 setup to my other comp and try to save some files, and after that do a new install....

BTW I've also tried accessing the installation by using the recoveryconsole via the xp install wizard. But the system hangs after i enter my password for the login.

 

I managed to backup everything necessary. And I'm also done with the fresh install.

I'd like to thank you chaslang for you efforts. Guess there wasn't much left to do when the computer stopped booting up!

Thanks again and good luck with future problem solving! I will certainly be more careful in the future and I hope this is the last time you see me!

Regards

Sisu