Implementor Volgathras Posted December 22, 2013 Implementor Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 Hey all, Having some comp issues I hope you can help with, cuz I'm not thrilled with the prospect of lugging it out to get fixed. Windows 7 (I think) desktop, worked with no major issues until this morning when it decided to run disk check on boot. Ran through fine, but wouldn't reboot. Tried again, same issue. I managed to cancel the disk check and get through. Ran all checks and diagnostics, everything looked fine. Same problem. After several attempts to get to safemode and starting from my last successfull reboot, now it'll just crash when I attempt to boot up, only bios is available. No windows CD available. Suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmm Coffee Posted December 22, 2013 Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 You'll def need a windows 7 boot disk. Best case, just corrupt boot partition which can be rebuilt. Worst case, you'll need to reformat/reinstall. I know that's pretty vague, but without seeing the console, I can't really offer anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Implementor Volgathras Posted December 22, 2013 Author Implementor Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 I think i zeroed in on the issue: AVG. i just updated it and all hell broke loose. I need a way to remove it from my computer sans operating system. And let this serve as a PSA, screw AVG antivirus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmm Coffee Posted December 22, 2013 Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 If you can get it into safe mode (did you try safe mode without networking?), you could try removing it but it sounds like that's not working either. I don't know how it can be done otherwise without a boot disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0xx Posted December 22, 2013 Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 And let this serve as a PSA' date=' screw AVG antivirus.[/quote'] Screw all antivirus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledgerbay Posted December 22, 2013 Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 If you can get it into safe-with networking get revo uninstaller, I have literally had to remove avg with it before and it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Implementor Volgathras Posted December 22, 2013 Author Implementor Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 Update: managed to use a USB boot to get in and rename avg files so they don't load. Current issue is sticking after disk.sys, checking memory and HDD. Fingers crossed this **** didn't toast my hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ledgerbay Posted December 22, 2013 Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 Taking a sharp left turn in the meantime, anyone else using rainmeter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindflayer Posted December 22, 2013 Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 I thought AVG was bloatware laden with spyware and other bs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mya Posted December 22, 2013 Report Share Posted December 22, 2013 I highly doubt it's AVG causing the troubles. Most likely something passing as AVG. Try restoring to a previous restore point. If you really thing it's something with AVG's, just open the cmd.exe console in a delete everything AVG related in AVG directory. I used to have some problems with windows not letting me delete some files, but you just can't override old DOS delete comand If only the KILL command was still available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imoutgoodbye Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 You owe yourself a Christmas present. Brand new computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Nameless Posted December 23, 2013 Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 There are a few options. The EASIEST is to plug your drive into another system as a slave, then run the AVG removal tool. THEN copy the windows OS folder onto your drive from the main computer your plugged into. Name that folder Windows2. Then you need to get into a CMD prompt and pull up your boot.ini file to force it to boot off the copied files. Once at CMD prompt: attrib boot.ini -s -h boot.ini notepad change the bootpath to Windows2 and delete the old string for c:/windows (all your old files will still be in the original windows directory) Once you successfully bootup off the secondary path you can migrate all your data, and saves (not your programs, just the saves associated with that program) to the new windows directory, then you can delete the old file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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