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I was hoping you would know. Would unplugging the slave do the trick? I really don't know how to do a restore from recovery console but I am good at following instructions. Are there any ways to test your hypothesis? I only ask because ...

It does't seem to offer an option for selecting between the HDs. As it stands the first boot disk is HD.

It asks to set up a raid at the begining of the boot. (never done that before; i've never had raid setup) The boot process now stops after it says: PXE-E53: No boot file name received PXE-M0F: Exiting NVIDIA Boot Agent I ran fixmbr as per your instructions on the D: windows but the boot still stops at the same place. PS i promise to stop meddling PPS i am using a psp to write this hence the double post

hey elise. thanks for replying so quickly. I have bad news. i have been meddling and am afraid that i have further complicated things. the repair install was completed but didnt change anything. so i turned my attention to my mobo where I changed all the settings to optimized defaults, DOH! Now my windows install is on a D: drive which appears to be the same HD just labeled different. (I have a second slave drive installed; same as above master but 250gb) Did the master-slave thing get messed up?

Hello Malwarebytes team, I managed to contract a nasty virus and am hoping you could all please help me out. Basically, I got a fake microsoft virus warning that looked like this: http://www.prlog.org/10938142-fake-microso...virus.jpg\ Immediately, my computer froze. Now I can't get windows to boot. The start up process stops at "Verifying DMI Pool Data..." and won't go any further. thus I cannot yet provide a Hijack this file. I was able to boot from the windows CD and successfully completed a repair install of windows but the problem persists. (so I guess DOS is working?) Here's the rather old and dilapidated computer what I'm working with: windows XP SP3 AMD Athlon64 3500+ Hitachi 160GB 7200RPM Serial ATA 150 8MB Cache Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-SLI nForce4 Ultra SLI Chipset Dual PCIE MB 1gb of ram NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GT 256MB 16X PCI Express Video Card Thanks in advance PS I will obviously be using other computers to update this thread.