[SOLVED] Please help me: How to reboot Windows XP with Linux?

[vivenne.lauliet]

Hello,
As I mentioned in the title, I need to know how to reboot a Windows XP desktop PC with Linux.

You see, my younger sister was playing games on the computer when it suddenly shut down (which it has been doing for some time now though I don't know why) & when she turned it on, instead of showing the log in screen, it shows a small window which says: Object could not be found. The title of the window is: lsaas.exe - System Failure Then when you press OK (the only button other then X that shows up), the computer restarts again with the same window. I've tried restarting again & again but nothing happened.
It goes without saying that a virus that my sister downloaded through a game did this.

I could take the computer to a computer computer shop to get it reformatted but that's exactly the problem - they'll reformat it! I can't afford to loose any information that I have on my account on that computer.
I talked to someone regarding this already & he said that the only way to get the files back it by rebooting the computer with Linux, this had me so relived but the down point is that he is in New York & I'll have to wait until late December to go there get this done.
I have my MacBook Pro (to which I was about to transfer all my files from that computer but didn't get the chance to...) but since the information stored on that computer is needed, I'm thinking if someone here could tell me how or where to get this done. Or what programs/software/CDs & information I'll need to do this myself. If there is a place to get this done, of course that would be the best thing as my knowledge with Linux is 0 (although I would like to learn in the future).

I'm really looking forward to any insight into the matter.
Thank you.

P.S. I don't have any warranty plan for the computer.
Plus the computer was updated from Windows 2000 with an XP CD from somewhere so I don't even have that registered.
And lastly I live near Toronto, (Ontario) Canada in Brampton so a store near that would be great but I'm willing to compromise on this.

[i92guboj]

Hello,

Hello,
As I mentioned in the title, I need to know how to reboot a Windows XP desktop PC with Linux.

I guess you meant "restore/repair windows" from Linux. It doesn't matter if you reboot from linux or from any other place. Windows will boot the same (errors included).

You see, my younger sister was playing games on the computer when it suddenly shut down (which it has been doing for some time now though I don't know why)

Virus or hardware failure (overheating or ram errors usually, but not limited to that).

Object could not be found. The title of the window is: lsaas.exe - System Failure Then when you press OK (the only button other then X that shows up), the computer restarts again with the same window. I've tried restarting again & again but nothing happened.

Googling for lsaas.exe gave me a bunch of results, all of them related to virus infection, so you can have an average idea of what are you dealing with. Try to look yourself and see if any of the given solutions works for you. As an example I paste one of the links here:

c:/windows/lsaas.exe what is this? - Tech Support Guy Forums

Note that you might need some extra time to complete the checks and the virus removal . If the problem is that the computer reboots after a given time, you might have luck by changing your clock date. Just set it on the past year until you are done. This works surprisingly well for a number of virus that likes to reset your system after a given time schedule (usually just 1 min or so).



If you can't clean your system to a consistent state, let us know. We might not be able to help you to restore your system, but one thing we can do for sure is to help you to rescue your data from linux and put it into a livecd or an external HD or pen-drive. Once your data has been saved, you can do a clean format and reinstall windows yourself (or take it to the technician, whatever you prefer).

[b2bwild]

Well 1st thing...its so confusing...
you dont have to write full story...


What you need is Live CD of Linux

Like Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, DreamLinux etc... there are many distros available, You can browse them on Distrowatch

download one of them, for example Fedora 9 Live CD

Boot up your PC using it.. you will see your Discs are detected on Desktop..
if not...

Go into Applications > Accessories > Terminal
and use following commands

# su - root

To enable admin mode

# fdisk -l

This shows up your all partitions on all disks

Consider /dev/sda1 is your Windows partition C: (it can be different as /dev/sdb or /dev/hda etc..)

# mount -t ntfs-3g -o force /dev/sda1 /mnt

as your windows is not shutdowned properly you will need to mount file system by force.

After this use file browser (nautilus) to browse " /mnt " which is your C Drive
copy all the data you want on Pen Drive or Copy it on remote machine using network

[vivenne.lauliet]

If you can't clean your system to a consistent state, let us know. We might not be able to help you to restore your system, but one thing we can do for sure is to help you to rescue your data from linux and put it into a livecd or an external HD or pen-drive. Once your data has been saved, you can do a clean format and reinstall windows yourself (or take it to the technician, whatever you prefer).

First of all, thank you so much for such a quick reply.

Secondly, I managed to successfully burn the ISO image to a CD with Disk Utility.
When I reboot the computer with the CD, a Fedora screen showed up saying '9 seconds till loading'' (or something like that) but the screen after that was a black & white one with a lot of commands . It ws something like this:

Unable to find persistent overlay; using temporary
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block Oxaadd4
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read cache block [2ab73e36:0]
SQUASHFS error: Failed reading block list [2ab728a0:1f28]
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block Oxaadd4
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read cache block [2ab73e36:0]
SQUASHFS error: Failed reading block list [2ab728a0:1f28]
Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1048560
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block Oxaadd4
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read cache block [2ab73e36:0]
SQUASHFS error: Failed reading block list [2ab728a0:1f28]
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block Oxaadd4
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read cache block [2ab73e36:0]
SQUASHFS error: Failed reading block list [2ab728a0:1f28]
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block Oxaadd4
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read cache block [2ab73e36:0]
SQUASHFS error: Failed reading block list [2ab728a0:1f28]
EXT3-fs error (device dm-0): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #2161 offset 0
/init: line 468: /sysroot/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev*: No such file or directory
bug in initramfs /iit detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck!

bash-3.2#
bash-3.2#

And it's still stuck on that screen. If I press Enter, the 'bash-3.2#' comes up.

What do I do now?

[vivenne.lauliet]

Boot up your PC using it.. you will see your Discs are detected on Desktop..
if not...

Go into Applications > Accessories > Terminal
and use following commands

To enable admin mode


This shows up your all partitions on all disks

Consider /dev/sda1 is your Windows partition C: (it can be different as /dev/sdb or /dev/hda etc..)

as your windows is not shutdowned properly you will need to mount file system by force.

After this use file browser (nautilus) to browse " /mnt " which is your C Drive
copy all the data you want on Pen Drive or Copy it on remote machine using network

I managed to successfully burn the ISO image to a CD with Disk Utility.
When I reboot the computer with the CD, a Fedora screen showed up saying '9 seconds till loading'' (or something like that) but the screen after that was a black & white one with a lot of commands . It ws something like this:

Unable to find persistent overlay; using temporary
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block Oxaadd4
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read cache block [2ab73e36:0]
SQUASHFS error: Failed reading block list [2ab728a0:1f28]
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block Oxaadd4
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read cache block [2ab73e36:0]
SQUASHFS error: Failed reading block list [2ab728a0:1f28]
Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1048560
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block Oxaadd4
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read cache block [2ab73e36:0]
SQUASHFS error: Failed reading block list [2ab728a0:1f28]
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block Oxaadd4
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read cache block [2ab73e36:0]
SQUASHFS error: Failed reading block list [2ab728a0:1f28]
SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block Oxaadd4
SQUASHFS error: Unable to read cache block [2ab73e36:0]
SQUASHFS error: Failed reading block list [2ab728a0:1f28]
EXT3-fs error (device dm-0): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #2161 offset 0
/init: line 468: /sysroot/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev*: No such file or directory
bug in initramfs /iit detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck!

bash-3.2#
bash-3.2#

And it's still stuck on that screen. If I press Enter, the 'bash-3.2#' comes up.

What do I do now?