Phology Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 sigh............... im gettin really pissed off with my computer at the moment iv just got myself an External HD so iv cleared up a lot of spaceand d/ld Avast and did a scan and all that, gettin rid of a lot of nastyness... now...i cant seem to install any software.. everytime i try to install anything, my computer crashes.. im pretty sure its sumthing to do with this TOTOUR.EXE virus thats appeared on my compwhich i cant seem to get rid of!!!!!!!! im debating wether to whack all important stuff onto the new HD and master reset the piece of shit.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rygon Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 maybe this will help http://forums.techguy.org/malware-removal-...totour-exe.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phology Posted November 6, 2007 Author Share Posted November 6, 2007 ye i tried all that but still cant shift it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wax On Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 just make sure you've got all your drivers (and obviously everythig else) backed up, then just do a clean windows install. it'll be like a breath of fresh air... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 ^^I would do that, especially now you've got another drive to use for backing up your data. If your computer has been overrun with spyware and/or viruses, it can't always be restored to a fully working state, because system files get damaged and the registry can become corrupt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phology Posted November 6, 2007 Author Share Posted November 6, 2007 hmm... cool looks like im guna try that has anyone else here had experience with this totour.exe virus and managed to get rid of it?? im kinda of a novice when it comes to this stuff, i know how to do most things..but if anyone could kinda "walk me through" how to do a full system restore thatd be great i jus wanna do it right.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wax On Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 i would, but i just generally bang the cd in and set it to boot from cd, and just press enter until windows is up on the sceen!!! Way of the cowboy, yeah!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 The best way to do it IMO, is to remove every partition from the HDD so you're starting totally from a fresh drive, then create one partition for Windows and any programs you want to install, and one for all of your data. If anything buggers up in future, you can wipe the C drive with Windows on it, while leaving the D drive with all of your data on it untouched. It can all be done by booting from the XP CD. Delete any partitions, create a partition for Windows/programs, format it, install Windows, and then once you're actually in Windows you can format the other partition for your data. It's dead easy. The only difficult part is deciding how big the Windows/programs partition is going to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phology Posted November 7, 2007 Author Share Posted November 7, 2007 partition? trust me, i know nothing about doing this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 OK, let's say you have a 250GB hard drive. If it has just one partition on it (all drives have to have at least one), it will just show up as one big drive called C, for example. Partitioning a drive means slicing it up into chunks. Windows sees each of those chunks as a separate hard drive, even though there's only one actual physical hard drive there. So, you could have a setup like this: - C - 20GB - Windows & ProgramsD - 230GB - Data Because C and D are looked at as separate drives by Windows, you could wipe C if you needed to, and everything on D would remain intact. My computer is set up like this: - http://xs121.xs.to/xs121/07453/partitions.jpg I've got 2 actual hard drives in there. The first one is partitioned into C (for Windows and programs) and D (for data). The second hard drive, E, is used as a backup, just in case the other hard drive physically fails. If I was you, I'd run a similar setup, so you'd partition your hard drive into C and D, and your external hard drive would be your version of my E drive, used for backups and extra storage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phology Posted November 7, 2007 Author Share Posted November 7, 2007 mines like thisthe G drive is the external HD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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