I have a sony vaio pcg 7h1l. Had it for a little over a year now. Got a virus a while a go, but took it off. Then it would take about 4-5 times just to be able to log on. So i decided to upgrade from Windows XP media center to XP pro. In that i accidently made my system a multiboot system. I could log on and it worked just fine but absolutely no drivers. So I went back and did it again but this time it keeps freezing at the installing windows screen. The cursor still works and the scrolling bar at the bottom is still going but nothing is going on. The screen says Approximately 39 minutes to complete and have left it for way past an hour and still no change. Under normal circumstances I would wipe the hard drive and start from scratch but I have very important files on it and can't afford to do that. What can I do?
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Jump to PostYou can boot from the CD in DOS mode and get the important files off.
You can take the HDD out into a USB enclosure, connect it to another PC and get the files off.
Based on your story (and even the possibility that a trojan could still …
Jump to PostCan we be sure what you've done? You've got your files off, FDISK'd the drive, Format'd it and done a clean Windows install. So it appears you're missing the Sony release device drivers although I would have expected Ethernet to be generic.
Does this mean that if you boot …
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