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Installed Windows Vista Service Pack 2 - now windows won't boot

A few days ago, I inadvertently downloaded a Trojan onto my computer after my friend sent me a "link" (I normally don't fool for those things, but this one looked legitimate). I tried scanning my computer wirh Ad-Aware, Malwarebytes, Spybot Search & Destroy and McAffee, but none of them could find the infection.

As a last desperate resort, I installed Service Pack 2, and now, immediately after the installation, windows fails to boot. I've tried system restore, but it says that I don't have any restore points available, contrary to the fact that one was created before installing Service Pack 2 and I manually created one 2 days ago.

I would try booting from my windows vista disc, but I'm not entirely sure if my computer even came with one, because I can't find it anywhere. I do, on the other hand, have a new Windows 7 disc, but it's the upgrade version. Is there any chance that I could boot from this?

Any help at all would be appreciated!

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  • krislavin Dec 19, 2009

    I would love to be able to do that, but I didn't get a windows disk with my PC. Is there anything else I could do? Could I possibly reverse the changes that I made when I installed SP2 or something?

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First boot from the windows xp cd....
delete the existing partition in which windows was installed...create a new partition
do a fresh install of windows .....
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