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Running Windows X64 bit
Nvidia Geforce 7300 GS
160gb Western Digital Hard Drive
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
The past two days my computer has been acting really weird. Three days ago, it wouldn't move past the initial boot up screen apparently because I had USB mini-sd card reader plugged.
Yesterday when I was booting it up, before it got to the windows load screen , it said there was disk read error and that I should restart. I did that, and then it told me that it was missing the windows/system32/ folder and that I should insert the windows xp disc and hit "r" to repair the problem. I restarted again, and this time it loaded into windows without a problem.
I installed AVG, Avast, and Adaware yesterday. I found a couple viruses, cleaned off apparently all the adware, and shutdown last night thinking the problem was fixed, except that this morning I had the same issue again.
Any ideas on what I can do?
tl;dr:
3 days ago: SD card reader caused computer to not boot
2 days ago: Disk read error, (restarted) then missing windows/system32 folder at startup, before the computer got into windows. Installed virus software
Today: Same problem as yesterday.
Nvidia Geforce 7300 GS
160gb Western Digital Hard Drive
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
The past two days my computer has been acting really weird. Three days ago, it wouldn't move past the initial boot up screen apparently because I had USB mini-sd card reader plugged.
Yesterday when I was booting it up, before it got to the windows load screen , it said there was disk read error and that I should restart. I did that, and then it told me that it was missing the windows/system32/ folder and that I should insert the windows xp disc and hit "r" to repair the problem. I restarted again, and this time it loaded into windows without a problem.
I installed AVG, Avast, and Adaware yesterday. I found a couple viruses, cleaned off apparently all the adware, and shutdown last night thinking the problem was fixed, except that this morning I had the same issue again.
Any ideas on what I can do?
tl;dr:
3 days ago: SD card reader caused computer to not boot
2 days ago: Disk read error, (restarted) then missing windows/system32 folder at startup, before the computer got into windows. Installed virus software
Today: Same problem as yesterday.