Reliable backup system?
I think I've had a malware-attack. I booted up and all was working then everything slowed way down until the only thing I could do was instigate a restart which I did. The PC never booted again. I tried to use the W8 install disc to make repairs but it took ages for the disc interface to load. Repair did not work - the process would not continue, all went dead, and I couldn't instigate the install process. I tried things in DOS but the system drive was shown as having an I/O error, and nothing I tried in DOS worked to solve the issue.
So I put in the recovery disc I made to load an image, but the recovery disc would not load, it crawled along for a bit and then all went dead.
I thought the drive may be dead, but it turns out it isn't. I solved the problem by installing W7, which worked as normal, formatting the main drive on the way. From that position I was able to now use the W8 disc to re-install that, which is where I am happily typing from now. All components are working.
I think the W7 disk worked because its boot protocol is older.
My question is - how can I make a bootable image loader thing that would actually boot against this apparent attack?
I think I've had a malware-attack. I booted up and all was working then everything slowed way down until the only thing I could do was instigate a restart which I did. The PC never booted again. I tried to use the W8 install disc to make repairs but it took ages for the disc interface to load. Repair did not work - the process would not continue, all went dead, and I couldn't instigate the install process. I tried things in DOS but the system drive was shown as having an I/O error, and nothing I tried in DOS worked to solve the issue.
So I put in the recovery disc I made to load an image, but the recovery disc would not load, it crawled along for a bit and then all went dead.
I thought the drive may be dead, but it turns out it isn't. I solved the problem by installing W7, which worked as normal, formatting the main drive on the way. From that position I was able to now use the W8 disc to re-install that, which is where I am happily typing from now. All components are working.
I think the W7 disk worked because its boot protocol is older.
My question is - how can I make a bootable image loader thing that would actually boot against this apparent attack?
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