My pc is an Inspiron 531 desktop running windows vista sp2 I have no cd/dvd's for the OS backup and my cd/dvd drive is broke anyway.
I have recently been hit by a pretty nasty virus/malware app"s" and would like to do a factory restore. The problem I am having is that when I select the Repair option per F8 on startup I get to the logon screen and all it shows is "other user" with the username/pass fields blank.
I have tried every possible user and user/pass combo I could find and think of. Every time I input a value into these fields and try to login I get the msg "The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted", if I try to logon without putting info in the field I get a windows security msg saying I must have a user/pass to logon. I know there is a recovery partition "D" But I can not get the pc to access it at all. I looked into every possible aspect of user accnts, changed the need to logon, removed all passes, gave full control to every part of windows and still I get the same screen.
I need to know if there is a way to bypass this or if the virus may have changed the logon setting for the repair operation? Also, if someone could tell me what steps the system takes and what files it loads when going through the F8 repair op.
Anything you could tell me would help greatly, And THANKS!
I have recently been hit by a pretty nasty virus/malware app"s" and would like to do a factory restore. The problem I am having is that when I select the Repair option per F8 on startup I get to the logon screen and all it shows is "other user" with the username/pass fields blank.
I have tried every possible user and user/pass combo I could find and think of. Every time I input a value into these fields and try to login I get the msg "The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted", if I try to logon without putting info in the field I get a windows security msg saying I must have a user/pass to logon. I know there is a recovery partition "D" But I can not get the pc to access it at all. I looked into every possible aspect of user accnts, changed the need to logon, removed all passes, gave full control to every part of windows and still I get the same screen.
I need to know if there is a way to bypass this or if the virus may have changed the logon setting for the repair operation? Also, if someone could tell me what steps the system takes and what files it loads when going through the F8 repair op.
Anything you could tell me would help greatly, And THANKS!
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