• Computer virus, totally unusable. Need to totally reset my computer.
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Well my computer has a virus and is totally unusable, and I'm pretty sure the only way to fix it is to totally restore it to factory settings. When I start it up it oes through some of the usual things it does then restarts and continues looping. My computer is a Sony Vaio PCV-RS620G, and it came preloaded with windows XP home edition. (no recovery disk) It had a virus before, and all I had to do to restore my computer to factory settings was press one of the function buttons while it was starting up to access what I think was called the "boot menu." From there it was simple to restore everything. Sorry for the lack of info. I can't really access my computer and I'm on facepunch from my iPod touch. Thanks in advance for your help, guys.
A reset to factory settings will not do anything. You need to format.
[QUOTE=gerbils_alt_2;18648797]A reset to factory settings will not do anything. You need to format.[/QUOTE] If that's the word for it, then that's what I mean. Could you tell me how?
[QUOTE=wannabe coder;18648829]If that's the word for it, then that's what I mean. Could you tell me how?[/QUOTE] Well, if you don't care for anything on it, put your Windows disk in and choose to reformat.
[QUOTE=snuwoods;18648901]Well, if you don't care for anything on it, put your Windows disk in and choose to reformat.[/QUOTE] There's no windows disk, it came preloaded. I said that in the OP.
Some shit happened to a laptop of mine recently and Dell was nice enough to send a new hard-drive. See if Sony is cool with that (probably not though, as mine was a hardware failure and yours was user error)
[QUOTE=5tolognadriS;18648979]Some shit happened to a laptop of mine recently and Dell was nice enough to send a new hard-drive. See if Sony is cool with that (probably not though, as mine was a hardware failure and yours was user error)[/QUOTE] ...and mine is 5+ years old.... Besides, I'm getting a new computer for Christmas so I'm only trying to get something that works for the time between now and then. Its no big deal if I can't fix it, but I'd rather not miss out on a month of lockerz PTZ...
Buy a new hard drive. Or smash your computer and throw it out the window Or pawn it
[QUOTE=PivotDJ;18649504]Buy a new hard drive. Or smash your computer and throw it out the window Or pawn it[/QUOTE] This happened before and I didn't have to buy a new HD.
Is there a sticker with a serial number somewhere on your laptop (maybe on the bottom)? If it is -- you can borrow a XP Home CD from a friend (or the internet, you have a valid licence) and install with the CD and your laptop's code.
[QUOTE=xyx;18650433]Is there a sticker with a serial number somewhere on your laptop (maybe on the bottom)? If it is -- you can borrow a XP Home CD from a friend (or the internet, you have a valid licence) and install with the CD and your laptop's code.[/QUOTE] It's a tower PC, but that sounds like a good idea. I'll have to try it.
If you can't get windows just install linux mint, I doubt you were doing much like gaming on a 5+ year old pc.
Format the partition via linux live cd.
But I can't actually log into windows... I can get to the recovery console and that's it. All I want to do is format the computer and I know I don't need a disk because I've done it without one before
You can't format without a disk. You did a system restore.
You don't have to log in to run a disk, you go into the start options, like f12 or something on startup, then go to run options and change the top one to run off disk, then start!
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