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Corrupt system can do almost nothing
Simple system built by myself many years ago. Never used very much but currently used with Spotify and that is all. Tv is my monitor and I use spdif from the motherboard to feed a high end DAC (Naim) into hifi.
The problem now is disastrous. I can boot the system but during startup there is a problem with btweb.exe which fails meaning that startup never completes and very very little works. I can get into task manager but it does not function. I had occasionally used BitTorrent years ago and that is the btweb issue. I think it may have been hacked.
The problems do not stop there. As I only use Spotify I was happy to to reinstall Windows 7 but the bios seems to only want to load from the hard drive. Still more function keys are not working so cannot access safe mode or bios and as startup is not complete I cannot use the system.
My current thoughts were to reformat my ide hard disk but of course my other system has Sata based drives.
I have ordered a new disk but I am fearful that my bios will still stop the system loading.
Any reassurances would be welcome
The Omen