I used to be paranoid about viruses, protecting myself from them and such. My trial subscription to mcafee had just ended (your probably thinking McAfee? WTF?) and i needed new antivirus. I am on cable, but to be able to buy the computer im using now for so cheap, i had to pay for AOL for one year. I decided that because of this, i might as well try their antivirus that comes with mcafee free of charge. I downloaded it and installed it. I immediately noticed a slowdown in my systems speed, but thought nothing of it because it usually happens when you only have 256 megabytes of ram. After installing and updating the virus database i began scanning. I went outside knowing it would take a while. When i came back in, the computer had a blue screen saying something about an error or something, i cannot remember well. I held the turn on button to turn it off, and then rebooted. When i rebooted, my computer took ages to start up, over 10 times as long as normal. At first i concluded that i mustve had a virus, but i had not been to any porn sites or have not been downloading anything. I had only been to trusted sites, which i knew, would never screw me over. After everything had booted up, i tried uninstalling the antivirus, which i also thought may be the problem, but the start menu took too long to open, and the uninstall file would not run. I knew if i got my parents into this, i would get into even more trouble. Finally, after many attempts, the program uninstalled. I rebooted hoping the lag would disappear, but this time, instead of booting, I got this message 'Please insert disk to boot from.... No disk found.. Loading operating system... No operating system found, or it is corrupt.' When this happened, i thought i would never have to resort to this, but to keep myself from getting in trouble and my parents figuring out, i restarted the computer with my windows operating system disk. I tryed repairing at first, but nothing happened, so then i attempted a fresh install. I wiped my partitions clean, and then the disk began moving files over, when it was done it automatically restarted the computer. This time the o/s loaded and i got to the XP install screen. As everything installed, i sat by my computer hoping it would work. After installed, windows booted up and i installed my wireless adapter drivers for internet first to try to figure out what my problem was. When it was finally installed, i ran IE so i could get firefox. I then ran firefox and began searching at my computer's support site. i found nothing on this sort of case, i also noticed that when i scrolled on any site, the refresh rate was slow. I turned off my computer, waiting till morning to find a new antivirus to install. When i restarted my computer, i got the 'Corrupted operating system' message again. I franticly searched for my xp install disc and attempted one more install. This time, it wouldnt work, i would get 'Could not detect disk drive' and other errors. I read everything i could, but could not get the answer. While i was trying to fix it, my brother discovered i was having a problem, he turned on my computer and it wouldnt load. he went to my parents and told.
I got yelled at, then we sent the computer into the company, it turned out to have a corrupted hard drive. When it returned, i somehow got grounded from the computer for doing something stupid. (not the computer problem) but when we loaded it up, finally, IT WOULDNT WORK!! we called up tech support and they told us to try taking out the ram, puttin it back in, and making sure all the ribbon cables were connected correctly. *Click*
Windows XP Loading.... =D IT FINALLY WORKED!
Please, help figure out what happened to my computer, it is still taunting me, i dont know whether it was my fault, the antivirus, or possibly my brother Razz this took a long time to write, and i do not want to have written it for nothing lol.
This happened several months ago
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