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Clean Install/Upgrade7...no disc? Dying Fast...999/911 etc!
Hi...and straight off an apology, as I'm sure the question has been answered 'til blue in the face here....but I've now spent 12/18 hrs a day for 6 days searching for one.
My pc has a TDL4 Trojan....it takes sometimes 30 hits on a link/page before I eventually get there, my processor is screaming at 100% plus by the sound of it, as soon as it sniffs a router....My poor wee Acer Revo is burning up with a fever! I'm in need of answers quickly therefore.....or where the answers might be found, please.
I've read all the Tutorials....Clean install w7....clean install w7 Upgrade....clean install ISO etc.
I had Vista from new, supplied with an Anytime Upgrade disc for 7HP. It's run 7 from day one & I think it kinda upgraded me to SP1 at some point.
The upgrade disc has a crack across it now.
I have a W7HP/SP1 ISO burnt to disc (17-48996) and another, 15-65732 (7HP)
I have both on flash drives for good measure!
I can boot to all 4 no problem, bar I have a big problem hitting the `Install Now` box.
Despite all the reading, a few answers have left a lot more questions. My only confidence is in the forgone conclusion, that it'll all end in total failure!
And I haven't, as yet, managed to find any mention of clean installing an upgraded W7
with an ISO? So now I'm fearing that even if I get an installation to my surprise, rather than a blank pc....it'll likely be a no go to activate?
Pc has a Vista sticker and I've got the CD Key No. thingy, for the 7.
Even then,baby that I'm being here.....in my days of research, I've seen things!......like, my Trojan can survive a clean install, that my ext HDD might be infected, which it was and for all I might know, still is, although apparently not?
That my network might be infected? I share my broadband with other adults....can they be the source of my infection....or visa versa? I kinda assumed that I was connected with these people, not in bed with them!
At this stage, I'm thinking....new, full price, fully authentic,W7, encase my Ext drive in cement/secret deep sea burial & shoot my flatmates, rather than a simple clean install..!
But I'm desperate enough to have to give it a try so......should I hit the button?
.....bearing in mind also, that if the setup starts talking to me about half of the stuff mentioned in the tutorials, then I'm gonna be a struggling.........I know what a partition is, we have a host of them in the office....and we often get shot of them for new ones, move, collapse or expand them.....simple stuff!
Make a complete back up of my system/drive? I've tried, with several software & it always stalls at 43%?
Save drivers? Did I not read that TDL4 hides stuff in drivers?
Will a clean install configure the stuff it finds onboard?.....please excuse my utter ignorance but there's a whole load of devices being driven...graphics, sound, wireless etc....I don't need to save any of these drivers I hope?
I read here, that it's best to do this with only mouse & keypad connected?
So, my Ext DVD, dreaded HDD & usb DAC I then just plug & play?
Just re install my wireless broadband, get my few programs back, job done?
Should an, rather than a
maybe consider purchasing Unhack/Warrior as a way out? I almost did until the more I read, the more I came to dread, re this TDL4.......it's made out like the swine flu for Windows!
Sorry...a lot of questions perhaps...but a simple yes or no will suffice as an answer to the main one right now....can I clean install & activate?
Thanks for reading/Gill
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