Vista stuck in startup repair loop

[xxsilk109xx]

I have a laptop in here, that has windows vista on it, it didnt have any service packs installed. There were also virus's on the machine.

I removed the viruses and installed service pack 1, when it rebooted it has been stuck in the startup repair and cant repair itself. I have ran chkdsk and it finds certain files that are not in the right place I guess, and I have ran this from the DVD as well and i get the same results.

When I do a chkdsk it claims it solves the problems but its still in a loop. I cant get to safe mode and any other mode i select, any other mode, starts and then soon enough I am in the startup repair again.

Any suggestions?

Oh yea and as is normal i cant run the sfc /scannow for some reason.

[VladD]

First, I'd image the disk, copy it in raw mode to another hard drive so that further damage to the filesystem can't occur, just in case the owner remembers a file that they really do need recovering. I'd also use something like fab's autobackup to copy user files and settings off the machine, then I'd advise the client that I need to nuke and repave.

[kagman]

seems like the virus did some damage or something. Then perhaps by applying service pack 1 that made things worse? This is where a technet subscription comes in handy.. Microsoft has a program called Desktop optimization pack. that software creates what called a Dart (Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset) cd.
Has great tools and does have a virus/spyware removal tool.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ent...p/default.aspx