Windows 7 keeps on jumping to System Repair Screen
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Hi there.
I have Windows 7 installed on my computer. A couple days ago I got hit by the Malware Sirefef.gen!C and I successfully cleaned utilizing McAfee Stingray, Avira and Microsoft Security Essentials. It seems like the Virus was gone and there no problems since for a few days I could log in back to normal.
But I then decided to do a more thorough Scan of my computer utilizing all my Virus tools (McAfee Stingary, Avira and Microsoft Essentials). Just to make sure every nook and cranny of my computer was clean and there wasn't some "inactive" Trojan or viruses sitting on my hard drive just waiting to be excecuted. And basically it was Microsoft Essentials which was recommended after its initial scan it wanted to reboot and then scan again after the reboot to do a complete check. All seemed well and more computer seemed like it was move cclean fast so I thought nothing of it.
When it rebooted is saw this message saying "LOADING WINDOWS" and then a progress bar which I hadn't seen before. And then it jumped to this System Repair screen where it would try to scan for problems. And it wouldn't find anything. It keeps on looping and restarting and going back to that screen.
I tried rebooting in Safe Mode and same problem. I did manage to be able to jump to command prompt and thought maybe the Master Boot record got corrupted or something. And ran the following commands :
bootrec.exe /FixMbr bootrec.exe /FixBoot
That didn't work either. Then I tried repairing with the Windows 7 DVD in the drive from a copy a bought awhile ago (Although wasn't that wasnt the exact version installed on my computer. Since I purchased it from HP and I don't recall them sending me a Windows 7 disk). That didnt work either.
I'm not so sure if its relevant but when thumbing around in the repair area it seems to refer to windows being in d:\windows. And originally my windows directory was c:\windows. There was a second partition on my computer when I bought it in drive d:\ which I never would look at. I'm not so sure if that's a backup partition that HP installed as a fail over partition. Or if just my c:\ somehow got reallocated to d:\ accidently.
Any advice on the matter? I don't want to do a complete re-install yet since I feel it could be just a matter of fixing the integrity of a few files. As my suspicion is when I ran the Virus scan some of the files required for login might have accidently gotton put in quaratine or something. And I have allot of programs setup which would take me a month to re-initialize them.