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I just received HP laptop from friend's brother. He screwed his laptop with virus. He asked me to repair his laptop. At first initial examination on his laptop. he installed Antivirus and Spyware remover AFTER his lappy was infected. Scanner says it have 2,300 something viruses and several trojans ect :jaw: . I asked her how did her brother crapped his laptop. She said he handed it over to his friend for while and after that that's what he got. Not very nice of his friends. I asked if he have a Restoration CD or Original XP cdrom came with laptop. She said he bought it cheap 'as is' laptop (nice but dirty HP Pavilion DV4308wm, I'm jealous cuz I ran Ubuntu Hardy Live cd and it's 100% compatible and wifi card happily detected and listed wireless routers!!). So I had to 'mosey' around to extract I386 folder from C: drive. (Not in C:Windows. file). Cuz virus and trojans took out necessary part of XP's desktop(no Programs from Start menu, My Computer all consist users folders, ect). I use IE browser to access C: drive to rescue that folder and placed on Desktop otherwise Nero won't be able to 'see' the file from C: drive, only see Desktop and name the few.
Then I had to download Ultimate Bootable CD and BartPE, create/merge XP from my XP CD and burn ISO file to CDrom on basment system. Then Booted it to BartPE desktop. I finally ran installation file from I386 folder's 'Winnt32.exe'. Provided Laptop's original XP Key, set C:I386 path for installation. Then after it installed installation file then close window itself. I rebooted and got into XP Setup and installed XP no problem.
The real problem is that I can't reformat the hdd cuz it refuse to reformat due to I386 folder in infected drive. It didn't provide me to creat new partition either. So I decide to log in clean installed XP and installed Nero burningrom and extracted I386 from infected 'user' file cuz it is shared with same infected drive. I burned it to CD and then downloaded and installed BartPE. I ADDED , NOT MERGE the I386 folder into BartPE and burned it to CD.
Booted up and scrubbed drive with Boot and Nuke. Then partitioned and reformatted it to FAT32. Then on BartPE, I copy I386 folder from BartPE disk and pasted it to scrubbed cleaned C: drive. After that I ran installation like I did above. After removing BartPE cd. Booted up and It show NO 'XP Setup' or 'Microsoft Windows XP Home' flash screen!!
Just the blinking cursor on blank black screen.
I did succeed on other installation method but asking for MS Windows XP sp2 CD. It won't use I386 folder. I knew one of file that I culd configure path to I386 but culdnt find it.
I went back on BartPE to see what I did wrong. on C: folder, It show I386 folder, $NTLTR$ file and couple of folders that installer already setup. The hdd partitation already activated and set to boot on C: drive.
SO I'm at the dead end how to install it from I386 folder!! I did Google Search and did follow their instruction and none working! I might have missing something on installation file. Vendor might have taken out neccessary I386 file in folder. Her brother can't afford to buy HP Resoration cd tho. I don't want to use my XP cd to install.
Don't ask me why I had to rescue I386 folder. It's because it's the original XP SP2 with Laptop's XP serial key for legal use purpose!! I did the same to my Acer laptop too just in case.
I only have 1/2 baked installation now.
Suggestion Anyone!!!
Catty