Clean off Malware and viruses

Posted on February 7, 2018 by PC Paramedic, Inc.

Programs to remove malware.

TDSSKILLER- from Kaspersky

adwCleaner-

Malwarebytes-

Malwarebytes AntiRootkit

Norton Power Eraser-

MiniToolBox- author Farbar – detects Internet connection issues due to broken or hijacked LSP, proxy settings, and problems with network adapters. It can also be used to detect search redirection and router hijackings.

ESET online scanner

Problem Creating Windows 10 Installation Media

Posted on February 5, 2018 by PC Paramedic, Inc.

Windows Media Creation Tool error 80004005 – 0xA001A

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install-winpc/how-to-prepare-bootable-install-media-for-windows/442447c3-0826-4473-a5b7-36568d20ef9d

Download Windows 10 ISO
Download Rufus (to create bootable USB
Open Rufus
Open the ISO in Rufus (Rufus will choose the correct Partition Scheme.
Select FAT32 for up to 32gig. Above that size select exFAT.
Leave cluster size to default
Click Start.

Trying to install Windows 10 on a blank hard drive

Posted on February 4, 2018 by PC Paramedic, Inc.

1st download the newest copy of Windows 10. I recently tried to install a few month old copy Windows 10 on a laptop that I installed a new M.2 SSD SATA drive. The Windows 10 installation didn’t recognize it, but the diskpart tool did. After I downloaded the newest copy of Windows 10, the installation DID recognize the SSD.

If your BIOS recognizes your new hard drive and you are trying to install Windows 10 on it but the installation says “A media driver your computer needs is missing…”, then you need to downloads some drivers and extract them to a USB. The problem is that a lot of computer manufactures don’t make it easy to download the drivers needed to use for a fresh install of windows. You need to download the Storage Drivers from your manufacturer.

I had this problem with drivers needed for a Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro. For me it was the “Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver”. Once downloaded, mine was in an executable file. The driver I downloaded extracted the files before it asked if I want to run the installation. I cancelled the installation but the files it extracted was another executable. I then ran the executable as so “setup.exe /?” to bring up the built in help, to see if I can extract the files but it didn’t list that I could. I searched the internet and found the switches needed to extract the files from the Intel RST driver. I was surprised that it worked since the help “/?” didn’t list the switches. This worked for me.

setup.exe -a -p “d:\intelRST”