A few days ago, when accessing yahoo, of the news' photos being showed there (directly on the portal) i saw one very attracting and i downloaded it. From that moment on, my pc started to malfunction. I use Kaspersky, which updates 2 or 3 times a day, i think so. The typical failure that, when booting it sends you the message "no system found" and you can reboot over and over and the boot process never goes on, then, i decided to format and reload the OS (XP) but formatting was not possible as partitions (1 in this case) were not present. Then i entered the shell's recovery commands as to fix the MBR and surprise again, the whole screen blanked out and nothing else happened during the next hours. Then i opted for migrating to Linux Red Hat and forget about Windows but the problem about the partitions reappeared. It is well known that when installing Linux, one determines sizes for each partition, including swap, this step was apparently performed but when clicking on finish, an error message related to such partitions showed up so the process was not completed. I turned back to Win Xp to se if at least such partitions created by Linux could be seen and yes, they were there but of course nothing else could be done; the shell's recovery console did not open. I fed up with that and thought of regenerating sectors, cylinders and everything else and even then, no news, however, i noticed that the more times i tried to perform this
action the higher percentage of regeneration i reached so by the fourth trial the unit was fully
recognized by the system, only then could i partition and format. Does anyone have any idea about what caused all this? I MEAN THE CAUSE, you can type any remarks on my procedure but what i need is your opinion on what CAUSED THIS. Thanks
Colanth, interesting statement. I forgot to say, for any unknown reason, booting from CD was not possible and id did not find out about why. Never thought of removig the bat for a BIOS reset, good idea but we'll never know.
v491138, you know what? if you're thinking it was a virus you're probably right however as those news' photos were really recent, i think no anti virus would have found such a virus if it arrived before the update, not even Avast, don't you think?
action the higher percentage of regeneration i reached so by the fourth trial the unit was fully
recognized by the system, only then could i partition and format. Does anyone have any idea about what caused all this? I MEAN THE CAUSE, you can type any remarks on my procedure but what i need is your opinion on what CAUSED THIS. Thanks
Colanth, interesting statement. I forgot to say, for any unknown reason, booting from CD was not possible and id did not find out about why. Never thought of removig the bat for a BIOS reset, good idea but we'll never know.
v491138, you know what? if you're thinking it was a virus you're probably right however as those news' photos were really recent, i think no anti virus would have found such a virus if it arrived before the update, not even Avast, don't you think?