dbarasuk - 10:09 am on Jun 10, 2009 (gmt 0)

hello guys. I got a confirmation that the installation was bad. I tried to reinstall as most of you suggested. After having inserted the windows cd, i got immediately a message saying: "Existing software was not fully installed"

I tried to reinstall windows and chose the repair option. All went well until the time windows sent a message saying: "Windows is going to start, please wait...". Then I waited more than 2 hours with no feedback. I forced then the switch off. I restarted the computer and i saw two operating systems. The first one ("Microsoft Windows XP Professional") was prompting for a 30 sec to boot automatically. That one once started could not allow me to swith user to admin. I used another user but was getting error messages with red crosses saying: "Could not find C:\windows\services.exe" and sometimes the screen went off and could not see the desktop icons anymore.

I then restarted the computer and chose the second operating system that prompted (strangely with the same name 'Microsoft Windows XP Professional') that one was even more informative. The system could not start. I got a black screen with this message: 'Could not boot from the C drive because there is a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Check the boot path and disk configuration...'. I then run the CHKDSK utility on the drive containing windows (C:\). I saw no error but of course they are plenty.

I believe this is for sure a problem of configuration. I don't know how to solve this,

Please help.

I did not format the C drive when I installed windows. I just inserted the CD and chose to install a fresh copy of windows which of course deletes all the existing data.

Please help

someone said microsoft gives sp3 for free. But the previous XP SP2 was not genuine. So to buy a new genuine software was the right decision to avoid problems.

I also found a rootkit of this name "C:\windows\ms-dos.exe"

This problem is bigger than what i can solve by myself. Please, let me know something

Thanks