On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 18:23:42 +0530, bobstew
<> wrote:
>
> I'm in need of desperate help.
>
> This morning my PC started up fine, then I started getting bombarded
> with popups and random messages.
What did they say? It's very difficult to be sure without your
answering that question, but my very strong guess is that you are
infected with malware.
What anti-virus program do you run? What anti-spyware programs do you
run? Are they kept up to date?
> Eventually it got so bad I had to
> restart.
>
> Now once it has started up I get a message saying "Interactive Logon
> process initialization has failed, please see the log for details",
> which just keeps reappearing when I click OK.
>
> I havn't had any joy using the Vista recovery tools or anything, and
> need any advice you can offer.
>
> I haven't backed up for a few months,
You probably don't need me to tell you this, but being delinquent in
doing backups is simply looking for trouble.If you have files that are
important to you, backing them up on a regular basis is extremely
important.
> and I've got my son's 1st
> birthday photos on there - I cannot loose them!
Since without more information, I can't be sure what you your problem
is, but you need to be aware of the possibility that they *are* lost.
> Does anyone know ways of
> backing up data before the pc has booted?
Remove the drive from the computer, install it in another computer,
and try to read and copy your important files there. Whether or not
that works depends on what your malware infection is and what it has
done to your drive
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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