Help with recovery please

Hi! Please excuse my lack of spacing. Im using a laptop that the enter key is not functional at the moment. Recently my W3J had been infected by a worm I-WORM/Luder. AVG virus scanned and quaranteed everything for me, but my W3J is now in dire need of a reformat since nothing (including the internet) is working. I see that there are 2 recovery CDs but no Windows XP CDs. I tried rebooting with the recovery CD in the CDROM but it just boots normally into WINDOWS. I checked the content of the Recovery CD and it has: ASUS.PQI, BOOTCAT.BIN and BOOTIMG.BIN, and a directory PQER and there are a bunch of files including PQIMAGE.EXE, REBOOT.EXE and RECOVERY.EXE. Can some kind soul please give me some advice or point me to how I can format my laptop and get it working again since I am quite a n00b in this field. THANKS! VIC

 

You need to go into the BIOS and set the CD-ROM drive above your hard drive in the boot priority. That should allow you to boot from the recovery cd. (To get into the BIOS, keep hitting F2 during startup)

 

Alternatively, press F9 as the computer boots up to access the recovery partition and go through the recovery much faster than if you had used the CDs.

~ Brett

 

Thanks for the advises. The F9 dont seem to work so Im going to try the other way

 

My W7J you hit ESC then select CDROM drive with the recovery cd's in the drive. Hope this helps.

 

also try hitting esc. at spash screen

 

Unless you repartitoned or blanked the HD, hitting F9 throughout the startup really should bring up the recovery partition... hmm

~ Brett

 

Yep, either F2 and selecting CD as first boot device, or ESC at the ASUS splash screen and then selecting CD/DVD while the 1st recovery CD is in the unit should do it.

If the F9 is not working, probably he did wipe the recovery partition sometime in the past, Nrbelex.

 

Thanks everyone for your help. I recovered the ASUS and at least now its functional. I changed the boot order to CD ROM first as suggested by nightfox. I've got another question if you don't mind. While I was in the recovery process, it kept on complainning about

BootSector Write!!
VIRUS. Continue? (Y/N)

I did some research and supposedly it's something to do with the HD.

The question is, although I didnt do a format, the recovery process should had eliminated all traces of viruses?

Thanks,
Victor

 

I don't think it's a virus.

I think you have enabled the boot sector protection in the BIOS. The Windows installation naturally writes information to the boot sector, and the BIOS monitor complains about it. So no worries, the situation is normal.

 

Thanks E.B.E.! So the recovery without reformat should give the laptop a clean bill of health?

 

Yep. The recovery has a built-in format.

Just to make sure, check in your BIOS if you have enabled Boot sector protection. If that is on, then my explanation above is most likely correct.

 

Thanks E.B.E. I checked the BIOS and you are correct. I've scanned my W3J with a couple of virus scanner, so Im a little more confident using it again.