Hello, trying to fix a laptop

had a lot of spyware, adware and viruses on it

got rid of it, restarted - all is okay

decided to use spybot s&d's immunize function for browsers(dont think this is relevant) it gets a part way through scanning possible candidates for immunisation and the system hangs

hard reboot

system loads fine up until after the windows loading screen, in which point a generic blue screen message appears with a stop message and config_list_failed

have searched the internet thoroughly and found that no one really seems to know the solution short of formatting the entire HDD - not an option

the main conjecture is that the HDD is completely out of space, which seems ridiculous, and it has 1GB free anyway - so i scratched that

another one is that a virus or system error has corrupted the boot.ini file, which ive had before and fixed, so i thought id give this a try

so i insert a windows XP setup cd, boot from it, and it goes directly to the partition options menu - normally three options to pick from? not this time

i have also tried burning a recovery console iso supposedly containing just the recovery console and nothing else, but for some reason when i insert a blank cd into my cd writer it just continuously makes ticking noises for 1 - 2 mins before giving up and not detecting a blank disk at all - detects everything else fine, ghrgaaha

have tried booting in safe mode, no go

laptop, so no fdd

not sure what to do, any way to do chkdsk without using recovery console/floppy?