Virus took over a laptop. I used Malware bytes and I was able to have it working fine, no issues. I put a flash drive to do a backup before something happened and I let it working while I went to bed.
Around 4 am I woke up and went to check the backup and the laptop had a black screen saying: Missing Operating System. I did not think of anything besides the fact that it may have restarted and tried to boot from the flash drive, so I turned off the computer.
Next morning the message was there and I could not get anywhere, even Vaio Recovery Center Tools would not work. I used Restore C: and Restore Complete System and I keep coming back to the same place, same message. Diagnosis and hard drive tests were all ok, no HD failure.
I cannot make any sense of it, it feels like that my operating system vanishes by itself. It was working fine, no viruses and the backup progressing and working by itself. I did get some backup files in the flash drive and I can't tell if it is all of it.
Now I cannot restore to factory setting unless I order the disks.
What could have cause that if the virus have been taken out?
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psychson
I need some help.
Virus took over a laptop. I used Malware bytes and I was able to have it working fine, no issues. I put a flash drive to do a backup before something happened and I let it working while I went to bed.
Around 4 am I woke up and went to check the backup and the laptop had a black screen saying: Missing Operating System. I did not think of anything besides the fact that it may have restarted and tried to boot from the flash drive, so I turned off the computer.
Next morning the message was there and I could not get anywhere, even Vaio Recovery Center Tools would not work. I used Restore C: and Restore Complete System and I keep coming back to the same place, same message. Diagnosis and hard drive tests were all ok, no HD failure.
I cannot make any sense of it, it feels like that my operating system vanishes by itself. It was working fine, no viruses and the backup progressing and working by itself. I did get some backup files in the flash drive and I can't tell if it is all of it.
Now I cannot restore to factory setting unless I order the disks.
What could have cause that if the virus have been taken out?
Thank you.
Computer: SONY VAIO PCG-3B2L
Windows 7 Ultimate.
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