This tutorial will show you how to create a bootable USB flash drive used to install Windows 11 with UEFI support. You can use a Windows 11 installation USB flash drive to clean install, upgrade, reset, or repair Windows 11. The installation USB can also be used as a recovery drive to boot to...
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Then... you can just do a Clean install of Win 11 on your 2TB drive.
This tutorial will show you step by step on how to clean install Windows 11 at boot on your PC with or without an Internet connection and setup with a local account or Microsoft account. Windows 11 has all the power and security of Windows 10 with a redesigned and refreshed look. It also comes...
During the clean install... just "delete" all the partitions on the 2TB drive.
Then, hopefully the install will over-write enough of the drive to kill the ransomware.
Using 3rd party backup software, prevents these kinds of problems.
But you "must" make the backup software bootable rescue media. With out that, you won't be able to access your backups when Windows won't boot, or when you get ransomware.
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How to use backup software... 1. When everything is working perfectly... make a full Windows backup. 2. Then, if something breaks... restore from the latest backup. 3. Then... try "whatever you were doing" a different way. If it still breaks Windows, then... go to step #2. 4. Repeat...
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During the clean install... just "delete" all the partitions on the 2TB drive.
Then, hopefully the install will over-write enough of the drive to kill the ransomware.
I don't ever get offered that option during the re-install process. It heads me in that direction, then circles me back to the beginning of the process. See screenshots in Post #35. Can a third-party app delete the partitions?
You'll need to temporarily disable Secure Boot, so this can boot.
Turn Secure Boot back on to install Win 11.
Try "format" during the install... that may get you to the "delete" partitions part.
I honestly don't remember. Last time I installed Windows was in May 2020 (Win 10).
I just did an In-Place Upgrade, to get from Win 10 to Win 11.
I use backup software... religiously.
Which, seriously cuts down on the number of times you need to install Windows.
From the way MS is headed, I'll probably have to a clean install of Windows 12.
Win 10 was different enough to need a clean install, coming from Windows 7.
I think Win 12 will be different enough from Win 11, to need a clean install.
In 26 years, I installed OSes four times.
Win 98 SE, Win XP, Win 7, Win 10. That's it.
Backup software plus the In-Place Upgrades, pretty much cover everything else.
I bought the HP desktop about 6 months ago with a OEM Intel 1TB SSD. I thought I could add a second 1TB, but couldn't so I replaced 1TB with a 2TB WD SSD. Aside from Windows not having the driver, I had no problem installing Windows 11.
I bought the HP desktop about 6 months ago with a OEM Intel 1TB SSD. I thought I could add a second 1TB, but couldn't so I replaced 1TB with a 2TB WD SSD. Aside from Windows not having the driver, I had no problem installing Windows 11.
I do backup periodically to an external hard drive. Probably been a couple of weeks, I won't lose much, maybe a few files, none critical. Any downside to trying a restore point first?
I haven't read all the post yet but I did read some of the post that mentioned about secure erasing your drive then clean installing Windows. If your backup drive wasn't connect at the time your computer was infected this is what I would do. I would secure erase the drive. When done I would restore my backup image. To repeat myself, Only if the backup drive wasn't connect when the computer was infected. It's also possible that the drive isn't infected and that some files got corrupted when you shutdown the computer.
@Winuser , the backup drive was not connected when the incident occurred. I previously noted this was a ransomware scam, not an actual malware installation. See Post #15. They try to get you to call their phone number. I did not, I just shut the PC down and restarted a few times and got rid of it. The PC seems to be running fine except when I try to run the rootkit scans with Defender & Malwarebytes. Then both programs crash after 15-20 minutes.. All other full scans, including Defender, Malwarebytes, MicroTrend House Call & ESET were all clean.
In the advanced troubleshooting screen, as soon as you click troubleshoot it should be there.
You probably cannot see the drive during windows setup because of intel raid drivers. (duh, I had forgotten this. I am on amd so I always forget about intel stupid raid drivers. We could have saved so much time, I had completely been an idiot I'm sorry. )
Let's do this:
Go into the bios under configuration and there should be an option for the drive to be marked as raid. Change this to AHCI.
Then windows setup should be able to see the drive, you should be able to wipe first via the list disk command as before, and you should be able to wipe it and then clean install windows.
And no changing to ahci wont hurt anything, it just saves you headaches in the future.
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