Alureon and my broken laptop

SarahCali · 29 Mar 2013

Got it. Doing so now

VistaKing · 29 Mar 2013

Sarah here is the link that Cottonball has mentioned Farbar Recovery Scan Tool

http://download.bleepingcomputer.com.../64/FRST64.exe

We don't need to restart the PC . Plug the USB drive in the PC and in the command prompt type the commands and press enter after each command

Code:

Diskpart

press ENTER

Code:

 list volume

press enter

Note

take note of the letter for your USB flash drive

then type

Code:

 exit

and press Enter . It should say Leaving DiskPart… then type in the driver letter of the USB flash drive with a back slash " \ " and the name of the .exe file .

SarahCali · 29 Mar 2013

Quick check - I can do so via burning to CD just the same, right? Because the USB won't play ball. Burning TDSS.exe onto CD was a success however. I realize this question probably inane :)

So now insert CD into laptop and ... It should automatically run the .exe, is hat right?

SarahCali · 29 Mar 2013

Wait, now confused. I am following the TDSS instructions?

VistaKing · 29 Mar 2013

No for now you should be getting the frst64.exe file. It will not work from a cd . We could format the flash drive to Fat32 if you would like from the command prompt .

SarahCali · 29 Mar 2013

I cannot get anything onto the USB via Mac, all I was able to do was burn it to CD. It can see mynUSB, but nothing more?

SarahCali · 29 Mar 2013

Ah, gotcha - you mean we can use laptop to make it Mac ready?

whs · 29 Mar 2013

Or just copy the cd content to the stick - on the PC

VistaKing · 29 Mar 2013

What version of Mac is it ? Mac OS X?

SarahCali · 29 Mar 2013

whs said:

Or just copy the cd content to the stick - on the PC

This! I am having all sorts of problems with the Mac (not mine, don't use them) - could someone talk me through doing so via the command line thing, I'm afraid I haven't a clue