Decided to redo my laptop operating system installation. Installed it all. Had a bugger of a time getting the network to work correctly. Stated to load on some programs. Needed to download a little app I've used for a while. Downloaded and clicked install and..........
Zip, zap, wizz, boom and bang. Screen goes crazy, things getting installed left, right and center. Hit the wifi switch and turned it off. But all to late. Uninstalled things I could could see that were new and not done by me. Then I seen the file extensions had all changed. Got on the net and found the problem quick. And there were a lot of new posts within hours or days of it. What your computer back? Only going to cost you $700/350 odd dollars. Must give pensioner discounts I thought. I'd been hit by a ramsomware.
Oh well, the easiest thing was go back to the start. Had lost all the files on the second drive partition. Nothing important. Cleared it all repartition the drive and back loading everything now. Spose its not that bad. First time in over 30 years.
Dougwe said
04:37 PM Jun 5, 2021
Phew! Sorry, but you confused me in your first sentence where you said "system installation". I'm easy confused though. I can move around my Laptop as long as it is easy but if anything more than turn it on and off and asking Mr Google something, I'm lost big time.
I hope you have it all sorted now.
Keep Safe on the roads and out there.
Mike Harding said
01:56 PM Jun 6, 2021
What was the utility you downloaded and from where?
Gundog said
09:59 AM Jun 7, 2021
Corndoggy wrote:
Decided to redo my laptop operating system installation. Installed it all. Had a bugger of a time getting the network to work correctly. Stated to load on some programs. Needed to download a little app I've used for a while. Downloaded and clicked install and..........
Zip, zap, wizz, boom and bang. Screen goes crazy, things getting installed left, right and center. Hit the wifi switch and turned it off. But all to late. Uninstalled things I could could see that were new and not done by me. Then I seen the file extensions had all changed. Got on the net and found the problem quick. And there were a lot of new posts within hours or days of it. What your computer back? Only going to cost you $700/350 odd dollars. Must give pensioner discounts I thought. I'd been hit by a ramsomware.
Oh well, the easiest thing was go back to the start. Had lost all the files on the second drive partition. Nothing important. Cleared it all repartition the drive and back loading everything now. Spose its not that bad. First time in over 30 years.
Hi in a past life I was a computer techie, I used Partition Magic to make a partition to store a fresh image which I created using Ghost.
Now I use Macrium Reflect to create a image of the HDD on a spare HDD, in the event of a bug or whatever I connect the copy HDD to the laptop using a USB cable and with macrium re image the corrupted HDD.
A handy little tool for creating partitions is Mini Tool Partition Wizard.
This is a pic of my computer HDD setup, I'm lucky to have a twin HDD laptop, the C: drive is partitioned in 3 one is hidden which has a copy of the windows installion program, the first is the operating system and the second is the data partition. The second HDD is used for movies etc.
-- Edited by Gundog on Monday 7th of June 2021 10:02:08 AM
I looked at my last hard drive image, and it was a few years old
So I have just done a new (ghost) image, on a USB hard drive, similar to Gundog
I would also like to know, the utility you downloaded and from where, so that I can keep away from it
Corndoggy said
02:22 PM Jun 8, 2021
I backup both my and the wifes desktop automatically all the time. The laptop is only ever used when we go away and not that often now I have a tablet. All the info on it is of no real importance and is on its way to being retired, like me. This all started because I couldn't access computers over my network, just could not get it to work. So decided to try another os on it. Loaded it worked out the access on the network and got it going. Then downloaded the program that you shouldn't use but I do. Wasn't the program was it. Those interested was m*******t toolkit. In the end have gone back to the original installed on version. All's good now. Laptop looks like the day I bought it.
Tony Bev said
02:38 PM Jun 8, 2021
Thanks for getting back to us, Corndoggy
I have never used (Microsoft Toolkit?), from an official, or unofficial website
After hearing of your experience, I never will use that app
Decided to redo my laptop operating system installation. Installed it all. Had a bugger of a time getting the network to work correctly. Stated to load on some programs. Needed to download a little app I've used for a while. Downloaded and clicked install and..........
Zip, zap, wizz, boom and bang. Screen goes crazy, things getting installed left, right and center. Hit the wifi switch and turned it off. But all to late. Uninstalled things I could could see that were new and not done by me. Then I seen the file extensions had all changed. Got on the net and found the problem quick. And there were a lot of new posts within hours or days of it. What your computer back? Only going to cost you $700/350 odd dollars. Must give pensioner discounts I thought. I'd been hit by a ramsomware.
Oh well, the easiest thing was go back to the start. Had lost all the files on the second drive partition. Nothing important. Cleared it all repartition the drive and back loading everything now. Spose its not that bad. First time in over 30 years.
I hope you have it all sorted now.
Keep Safe on the roads and out there.
What was the utility you downloaded and from where?
Hi in a past life I was a computer techie, I used Partition Magic to make a partition to store a fresh image which I created using Ghost.
Now I use Macrium Reflect to create a image of the HDD on a spare HDD, in the event of a bug or whatever I connect the copy HDD to the laptop using a USB cable and with macrium re image the corrupted HDD.
A handy little tool for creating partitions is Mini Tool Partition Wizard.
This is a pic of my computer HDD setup, I'm lucky to have a twin HDD laptop, the C: drive is partitioned in 3 one is hidden which has a copy of the windows installion program, the first is the operating system and the second is the data partition. The second HDD is used for movies etc.
-- Edited by Gundog on Monday 7th of June 2021 10:02:08 AM
I looked at my last hard drive image, and it was a few years old
So I have just done a new (ghost) image, on a USB hard drive, similar to Gundog
I would also like to know, the utility you downloaded and from where, so that I can keep away from it
I have never used (Microsoft Toolkit?), from an official, or unofficial website
After hearing of your experience, I never will use that app