[arijitraja]

I have a P3 866 MAchine with dual booting Win 2000 Proffesional Edition/Mandrake Linux 9.1 installed in it. 2 days back my Norton 2005 showed the virus Infosteal in a file c:\winnt\system32\xvid.dll which it marked as non-repairable. Reading a post by a fellow member i shut down NAV 2005 and started the online scan at www.kaspersky.com. When it was 60% due to some power fluctuation the system shut down itself. It already had found out around 100 viruses by that time.
Then when i started the machine again i am not able to log into any user not even the administrator. As soon as i enter the password and press enter on the logon screen, first a screen "Loading your Personal Settings" comes and then "Saving your Settings" and the same logon screen comes back asking for user and password. I tried in the Safe mode as well but the same thing is happening. I am posting this using my laptop. Please let me how do i go about solving this on the Desktop. I think this is a virus problem. I got a similar problem on this site but the solution is paid..
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper..._21081553.html

help me !!

[SICS]

looks like you os has become corrupt. At this point the best thing to do is to do a repair installation on your win 2k os.

[arijitraja]

Originally Posted by SICS

looks like you os has become corrupt. At this point the best thing to do is to do a repair installation on your win 2k os.

Pls guide me thru the repair process. ho do i go about it. do i need a bootable windows 2000 CD for this. will the repair process hamper the data and programs already there.. i think its some virus attack..

[SICS]

Here is the best guide right from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292175/