Pc no longer works properly after Avast update/uninstall

aliasojo

Guys..suggestions? I can take the hard drive out, stick it in a usb caddy and link to laptop. Anything I can do this way first to try to salvage before I reformat?

spg_SCOTT

John Gray

I think you misunderstood what I meant. I am for the re-install method, and I know it has solved countless problems in the avast forums. The mentality that I hate is this: "X is not working properly" "Uninstall it, use Y, problem solved."

aliasojo,

So you cannot boot at all? In any mode?

aliasojo

No, now can't boot at all. This has just happened since selecting safe mode boot.

debitcardmayhem

aliasojo wrote: »

No, now can't boot at all. This has just happened since selecting safe mode boot.

Have you tried your Windows 7 install dvd, and selecting repair ?

hubert_cumberdale

yes but it doesnt detect the ones that actually do harm it only detects ones that are older

if your running avast now you could well have some and you wouldnt know but if your happy with that its fine

i was just going by what i witnessed when testing different ones with different files

spg_SCOTT

I've read that the msconfig method of safe mode can leave you with a reboot loop but I am not the one to ask about this, I would have to defer to someone who knows more about it...sorry.

EDIT: Could we not make this an AV discussion thread and focus on the problems that the OP is having, it just drives it off topic...

fiddiwebb

I would be surprised if it was Avast that caused the problem but hey I'm not one to argue

aliasojo

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Have you tried your Windows 7 install dvd, and selecting repair ?

No, I haven't but will give that a go now.

fiddiwebb wrote: »

I would be surprised if it was Avast that caused the problem but hey I'm not one to argue

I've just been searching online about this and there are too many people similarly affected for this NOT to have been caused by Avast.

aliasojo

Windows disk doesn't help. Drive spins and makes noises as if disk is loading but nothing else happens so I can't even see any screen to select repair.

If I remove the hard drive and link it to laptop via a usb caddy, can I reinstall windows that way? I can's see any other option if nothing will load normally.

debitcardmayhem

aliasojo wrote: »

Windows disk doesn't help. Drive spins and makes noises as if disk is loading but nothing else happens so I can't even see any screen to select repair.

If I remove the hard drive and link it to laptop via a usb caddy, can I reinstall windows that way? I can's see any other option if nothing will load normally.

Silly question I know but did you select the DVD (from the boot screen ) ? Or is it still trying to load Windows from the HDD which isn't working