XP crippled

[montypython]

I'm currently stuck in a real mess of a situation with my pc, I just updated to AVG 2011 two days ago when it started giving off alarm messages such as 'Trojan Horse Patched_C.JHB' and 'Trojan Horse Patched_C.JHF' on my windowslogin.exe and explorer.exe files. I ran both AVG and Malwarebytes in safe mode, but when I restarted I received a bluescreen message with the C000021A (Fatal System Error) notice. I got a copy of XP SP3 to reinstall, with which I did to the master HD while choosing to leave everything alone, so now I have two XP boot selections everytime I start up, with the second one going back to the blue screen. How do I fix this?

[Norade]

You should reload from backups or recovery disks to before the issue happened. I'd also recommend getting a better OS as XP is long in the tooth and Windows 7 is far better.

[Dominus Atheos]

Back up your data, then nuke the entire hard drive and and reinstall from scratch.

[Uraniun235]

Or, you could edit the boot.ini file and remove the second selection so that it no longer tries to boot to the old Windows install.

[montypython]

I just got a new hard drive in order to transfer data to a clean install, and thankfully I can access the second selection again after transferring the old explorer.exe and winlogon.exe back from the virus vault. Thing is though, can Acronis copy individual files and folders or do I need to image the whole disk first and then transfer individual files and folders?

[montypython]

After using some cleanup software I managed to get things running again, so I backed up my data and removed the dual boot on single partition setup I was using to get everything in order, so things are finally working again.