Hi guys, just joined for advice as I have no idea where to turn. A couple of days ago I got the System Tools virus, no idea where from though I've heard some people got it from Facebook. Had the usual symptoms: fake virus scan, labels every process as infected including ctrl-alt-del, etc. I panicked and restarted the computer by forced shutdown in the hopes it wouldn't save, and as it was restarting- it wouldn't boot. Gets through the dell loading screen but not as far as the windows loading screen. I've got 2 hard drives on my puter, and have managed to convince it to let me boot through the second hard drive which literally just has windows on it- no sound drivers or internet access or anything (I'm posting through my clean laptop) but I can access my infected hard drive through the second to access files. I've deleted the desktop shortcut, the file the shortcut directed to in appdata, and I heard there's meant to be a similar file in programdata and can find the folder but not the file. I made sure hidden files were visible, and I tried downloading malwarebytes on this laptop, transferring to the clean hard drive, then running but it won't let me (error 372 I think?). I'm convinced I can fix the virus if I could access my infected hard drive but it won't let me log on, even with F8 safe mode. Let me know if there's any info I can give that might help, or better yet a suggestion on how to get to safe mode without F8... I know reinstalling windows is a possibility, but I'm not sure where my boot disc is and don't want to risk losing files I might have forgotten to transfer to the other hard drive. I'm on a 3 year old Dell computer running XP. Thanks in advance, Dan
