Xp Boot Disk

I'm having major problems with my pc. It suddenly freezes and I have to do a hard boot to restart it. I can't run my McAfee scans or spybot or adaware because it freezes after about 2 mins into the scan.

I *think* one of my kids got a virus from a website they were visiting even tho I have McAfree.

I have an HP Pavillion w/AMD Athlon XP 2000
1.66Ghz
480 of RAM


I can't find the cd that came with my pc. Right now I'm at work and I use XP Pro here. Is it possible to create a boot disk from my work pc or should I just use the reinstallation CD for my work pc which is a dell?

TIA

 

even if you made a boot disk, the virus would still be present on your system and wreaking havoc. Your best bet is to take out the Hard Drive and put it into a machine that has an updated AV on it and scan the drive.

disclaimer: Please back up important data on the scanning machine prior to putting the possibly infected HDD in it.

 

Ouch! I'm gonna kill my kids. I have updated AV on my system. However, my son said he *think* he might have by passed it when he went on a website the other day.

The pc runs in safe mode and I am able to scan some of the hd but not the whole thing.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just hope to take care of this without having to take it in to be fixed.

 

you can try this

http://housecall.antivirus.com

see if it scans the whole drive or not.

 

Thanks Kodo,

I'll try this when I get home tonight. If it doesn't work, I'll be back

 

XP Boot Disks.

Makes up six floppies. Make sure your bios is set to boot the floppy first.

If you are loading into safe mode then it could be a driver issue......could be.

 

Thanks Hipster,

I originally thought I had a driver issue a couple of weeks ago when the system would freeze after using Media player.