So I woke up this morning to find out that the previous night my dad was having problems with his computer. I wouldn't call him completely computer literate. After a virus scan picked up some "infected files" in System32 and told him to "manually remove" them, he proceeded to move the infected files found in System32 to the desktop and turned off his PC. I theorize that these were somewhat significant components since the events following meant he couldn't start his computer up.
Today he told me this and that it won't turn back on properly. After trying to turn the computer on it gave me the boot menu of options like "Start up Normally", "Start up in Safe Mode" and "Return to last previous state which it had turned on correctly". After trying all the options and finding that the computer wouldn't start up and only loop back to this area in the start-up process we tried something else.
We switched the Master Hard Drive with the Slave Hard Drive (which was from a previous computer that had Windows XP installed on it), it gave me an error which I recognized as it having another drive or disc higher in priority than the Slave Hard Drive. I unplugged the External Hard Drive and anything else that could possibly interfere.
The computer booted up into Windows XP through the Slave Hard Drive, through the use of the keyboard only (since the mouse refused to install the plug'n'play drivers for some reason) I was able to replace the System32 files on the Master Drive to their usual place. I also backed up all of my dad's files from the Master Hard Drive to the External Hard Drive at the same time, in-case anything was to be lost from such tampering.
After replacing these files the computer started up into its usual state.
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