After that I use the old xp reinstall method. Widely discussed so I'll stop here but comment the damage is now sadly common with all those malwares out there.
Bob
Hello, here is the issue I'm trying to tackle
Some time last week, I shut down my computer by holding the power button, don't know why I didn't do a complete shutdown but that's what I did. Next day windows won't load. Here's what I have:
My old roommate & I built this machine from NewEgg components about 5 years ago including ASUS motherboard & Western Digital SATA hard drive, running windows XP.
Here's the work & results since the incident:
Normal startup:
(paraphrasing a little) Windows did not start successfully, choose one of the following options
Safe mode
Safe mode with networking
Safe mode with command prompt
Last known good configuration
Start windows normally
All of these options fail and the system restarts
With boot disk:
A:\>echo off
NWCDEX.EXE Version 2.81 CD-ROM file handler.
(copyright information)
Driver not found: 'generic'.
A:\NWEXCD.EXE requires a Driver name wto be specified.
Invalid drive specified
Command or file name not recognized
Command or file name not recognized
Command or file name not recognized
Command or file name not recognized
Command or file name not recognized
A:\>
Following a google search for failure to start safe mode I found this file - ubcd411.exe
startup with this file on cd yielded this:
HD System Type-(00)
Missing Operating System_
Asus hard drive boot disk:
Welcome to Asus Motherboard Make disk for DOS menu rev 1.0
1) NVIDIA SATA RAID Driver Page
2) Silicon Image Sil3132 SATA RAID Driver Page
3) FreeDOS command prompt
Please choose 1 ~ 3:
My concept to solving this is get to a system restore point through safe mode. Failing that a re install of windows or last ditch solution reformatting. Getting these done from here is beyond my knowledge level. I am working off a laptop preferably sparingly, with a DVD burner. I hope someone can help, I'll provide any needed info I can. Thank you.

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