windows and ubuntu won't boot after bsod, possible virus

exeviss,

Please give this a whirl...

Boot into Safe Mode, and click the Start button
Type msconfig in the search box
In the list of results, click msconfig.exe.

In the System Configuration box, click the Boot tab.
Under Boot options uncheck the box next to: Safe boot
Press: Apply > OK

Restart the computer.

What happened?
 

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Wouldn't that just make it not boot at all? It only boots it safe mode.
 

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This Registry key is present in your system:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Option]
"OptionValue"=dword:00000001

If you change the OptionValue to 0, the machine should boot to normal mode, after a reboot.

Instead of editing the Registry, let the System Configuration utility do it for you.
 

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Safe boot isn't checked.
 

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...and the computer still boots only to Safe Mode?
 

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yeah. It shows the loading screen but never shows the blue startup it just reboots automatically and gives me the option to boot into safe mode. So each time I try to boot normally and that fails it reboots on its own. Safe mode says I recovered from an improper shutdown each time.
I haven't tried "bootsect /nt60 all" yet but It may be time to just back everything up.
 

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Please open a Command Prompt
Right click and select: Run as Administrator

At the Command Prompt, copy/paste the following (using the mouse), and press: Enter

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Option" /s


Do you get the following, or something else.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\windows\system32>reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contr
ol\SafeBoot\Option" /s
ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.

If something else, please post the info.
 

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I think I'm just going to go ahead and do a reinstall. I work from home and so need my computer, I can't really afford to spend any more time trying to save the installation. Thanks for trying. Now I just need the proper steps to back everything up and reinstall.
 

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Starting clean is always an option.

gregrocker provided you this link:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/219487-clean-reinstall-factory-oem-windows-7-a.html#post1839164

If you have additional questions, we have this forum to deal with Windows 7 installs:
http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/

Since technology progresses at a fast clip, make sure you look for fairly recent information about dual booting with Ubuntu. The Ubuntu forums may be a good place to start:
Installation & Upgrades

Thank you for your patience and following the instructions provided.

Good luck, exeviss!!


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I'm wondering if I could just remove all the drives and put a new 2 TB in there and do a fresh install as directed from there. I'm just kind of paranoid I might forget to back up certain files like saves for computer games and stuff which have been troublesome in the past. I kinda wan't to keep the drive as is until I'm sure I have windows working properly like it was. And Ubuntu will be easy to reinstall because all my files fit on a 15 gig flash drive.
 

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Ubuntu was on a separate HDD so I'll just wipe it and reinstall, it was the 1TB in the disk management screenshot. Unfortunately all I have is a 60 GB SSD on hand from a while back that proved hard to manage windows on. The windows installation grew to big even when I was storing all of my personal files on another HDD. So I'm just going to use the other 2 TB I recently acquired. I do want another SSD bad though but I don't have much cash until the coding internship I'm doing becomes a paid position and I need my computer to get there. Thanks for your help.
 

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exeviss said:
Unfortunately all I have is a 60 GB SSD on hand from a while back that proved hard to manage windows on.
Click to expand...
If you install Windows to another drive, then that 60GB SSD will handle Ubuntu really well under a Virtual machine through VMWare Player if you don't want to install it to a HDD. I use that kind of setup, and it works nicely.
 

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I have another question. Can a windows xp computer read a windows 7 hdd in as an external hard drive? When I try to do it windows xp says the drive isn't formatted, which it is because it boots in safe mode just fine in the computer it came from. I just checked. I have access to another windows 7 computer to try to read the hdd but I have to wait until the afternoon. I just want to make sure I can read this drive in other windows installations before I reinstall to the fresh one.
 

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Well I just tried to read it on a Windows 7 laptop and it didn't read. It just gives me the option to format like everything else, so it looks like I am going to have to back up everything the normal way.

edit: I was google searching about msconfig I found that you can enable normal startup from the general tab. Would that get my computer to boot normally again? Currently selective startup is checked. If there's no risk of messing anything up I'd like to try it.
 
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Sorry for the double post but I think I found out the cause of the blue screens. Whenever I attempt to update my nvidia graphics drivers on my fresh install it reboots to a blue screen whether I use windows updates or the nvidia site's updates. I tried a few different versions but still got blue screens. I'm not at home right now but i think the version I need to roll back to is 337.88. The video card I have is a geforce gtx 560. Other people have reported having problems with these updates so I'm really hoping its just a driver issue and not a damaged card. I don't see how it could be because it was working fine before on the previous installation.
 

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You may be able to roll back the Display driver on its Driver tab using the "Rollback driver" button.

If not find and install the older driver, in Safe Mode if necessary.

As to msconfig, I alwasy run with a Clean Boot, only allowing in msconfig>Startup and >Services (after Hiding All MS Services) my AV, sync, gadgets and stckies to start with the OS. Nothing else needs to and is likely only there to spy on you while posing as an Updater.
 
Well I think I may just have to replace the card. I was really hoping this repair wouldn't cost money but it looks like its going to.

After talking to nvidia tech support today I got the drivers to install but there were red dots everywhere and it still didn't detect my other monitor. It was like this the very first time I installed the drivers on this installation too. I had to put the graphics card in another slot to get it to do this the second time, every other time was a bluescreen.

Some people online are having issues similar to this which made me think it was a driver issue but when I think about the problems I was having with linux such as booting to a pixelated screen may be related to a dead graphics card. Maybe the card dying was what cased it to freeze up that one time in the first place. I might try a clean re-install tomorrow just to check.

At least I still have my original windows drive intact so I can probably just boot it in safe mode, delete the nvidia driver and it will boot normally again. Then I just have to install a new graphics card. It's going to have to wait until we can afford to spend the money on it though.
 

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