System Repair without reinstall?

fleming222 · 22 Jun 2011 at 22:49

Bet you can't solve this one...

OK here are the details.
Sony Vaio laptop, multiple virus infections and rootkits.
The main one being something called 'Clean This' which would not let you enter windows.
Safe mode would blue screen when loading.

I managed to run malwarebytes from a Mini XP boot disk, which removed 23 infections.

When rebooting, a wild blue screen appeared.

Because it is a sony vaio, it has a custom version of XP Media Centre, which means if I do a repair install it will not accept the license key.

Is there any way to get this PC running without using the recovery partition to do a full reload?

The best thing I can think of is running 'sfc /scannow' with the hard drive loaded into another PC, which I will not be able to try until Saturday.

Sin_Chase · 22 Jun 2011 at 23:21

It's not a custom version, it will be an OEM install.

You need OEM media for the OS which is licensed.

What is the BSOD? In all likelyness the cleanup has removed a critical system file which was infected.

sfc should be able to replace most crtical files but if you can list the BSOD you can probably sort it manually. sfc wont fix a missing storage driver for example.

fleming222 · 22 Jun 2011 at 23:44

It's 0x0000007b
Which I presume is because of boot sector viruses.
So you think sfc will work?

Sin_Chase · 22 Jun 2011 at 23:47

If I were you I would do an OS independent virus scan first, include boot sector.

Look at Sophos bootable antivirus for example.

7B could also mean the storage drivers are shagged.

fleming222 · 23 Jun 2011 at 11:25

Sophos bootable AV seems to find lots of stuff, but still no boot.
I tried foxboot aswell and still no luck.
Trying Kaspersky AV Rescue Disk now.

Do you think I could create a sony OEM CD using vLite or something?