IrishShapes

LINK TO ADVICE and no i can't boot to safe at all! i downloaded a boot disk also and tried to boot from that and it just wont! i go into BIOS put it to thee top of the list and still nothing, doesn't even give me an option to boot from disk! quite frustrating! i can however get to a C:\WINDOWS prombt, will this help?

on my desk top i had a recurring spyware (Vundo i think) which was grating me, so after many scans and quarantines and deletes etc, i looked it up online! from the symatic website it said to boot up in safe mode, turn off system restore and run scan, when scan complete, delete and reboot, turning off safe mode and turning back on sys restore well i got to the deleting part, when i reboot i now have the above message! i have checked other websites and none seem to help, saying i need the original boot disk (pc is 3 years old!!) or try an XP disk, well i dont have one (well not a real copy) and hit repair when i gt the option another says to uninstall SP3 (which i would if i could even get in that far) also tried F8 and "Last Good Configuration" - no luck it's a packard bell with XP SP3, and without going any further i can't really tell you much more can any one else help, thanks in advance p.s. i have asked this on another forum and they said to install Knoppix and Linux, but i'm unsure if this is the best solution for me!!