I’ve had malwarebytes installed for about six months. About a week ago my Avast was sending pop-up messages stating that it could not load something. I can’t remember what it said. Then I did a Windows update but can’t remember if it completed all of the way. Today I tried to boot my computer and it won’t boot in any mode. The last file that shows up before it hangs is aswrvrt.sys.
I’ve tried to access my hard drive from another computer using the SATA cable and it keeps telling me that I need to format the drive. When I look at the drive it says there are zero bytes on it. I’m not able to access it in any way but need a number of files from the drive.
I’ve attached the FRST.txt file. Can my hard drive be fixed?
You want the defective hard drive installed in my computer.
Using MBRFix (X:\programs\MBRFix>), enter “Chkdsk /r”.
If so, I get this message
“The type of the file system is RAW.
Cannot lock current drive.
CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives.”
As information, I can plug the defective drive into my MAC and see all of my files. Using two different Windows computers, the defective drive lists a total of zero bytes.
I will PM the link for the XP RC. You will need to install that using Rufus to a USB
Once it is on the USB boot from that and select command prompt then run the chkdsk command
I may have done something wrong. I’ve downloaded both Rufus and the recovery console. I can run Rufus and create a bootable disk using both MS-DOS and Free DOS. However, if I try to select an ISO image, I get a message stating, “This version of Rufus only supports bootable ISO’s basedf on bootmgr/PE, isolinux or EFI. This ISO doesn’t appear to use either…”
That link states you shouldn’t use the recovery console. I don’t have a very good handle on what I’m doing and it’s confusing when one option tells you to use the recovery console while the other option highlights in big, red letters that you shouldn’t.