Windows 10: windows 10 marks directories as "read only" and i am unable to change

You can run the scans without making an image.

 

so i am just now attempting to start this, but i have a wireless connection that is slow and i may lose the connection (especially since i have limited bandwidth) what does the macrium image do? you said i don't have to do it, but what is using it versus not using it? what will all those virus checkers and malware checkers do besides possibly remove problems? then the inplace upgrade? how much may change in my system?

 

The internet connection is required to download the tools, and update definitions. It is not required for running the scans.

Macrium Reflect creates an image, or snapshot, or your drive, so that if things go south, you can restore the image and be back to where you started. That image should be on an external hard drive, and recovery media (CD or flash drive) should be created. If you need to restore the image, you have to boot to the recovery media in order to restore the image.
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Normally they remove infections. There are occasions when the infections have messed up operating system files enough that it causes problems. Sometimes these problems can be fixed; other times there is so much damage, a clean install is the only answer. It depends on the infection(s) you have, how long they've been on the system, what other "friends" they've brought to the party, etc.

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Whatever you decide, please make a System Restore Point first, if you are able. Some infections disable System Restore, so it's impossible to do it. That's where a Macrium image comes in handy.

 

can you tell me which data drive were you telling me to backup? is that the external drive, or another part of my hard drive? macrium image shows the fat32 on disk 1, unformatted primary, windows drive, windows recovery, then another recovery drive which I am pretty sure is not external, yet it recognizes it as a second drive, then it shows my external drive. also, I had paused the download due to limited bandwidth, and macrium said I can download that from the main file, but I don't see an option.. don't know where or what it was.

 

post a pic of what Disk Management sees

Disk 0 should be your Win10 HDD and should have 3 or 4 partitions

Disk 1 is Fat32 so I would say that is your external as Win10 does not use Fat32 on it's Disks

you should se something similar to this

 

Are you trying to save data now or just reinstall win10 ? I see you have a HP recovery partition (d) so you should be able to invoke the HP recovery system and let it wipe the disk and put the laptop back to how you bought it.

The Fat32 partition is actually the Win10 EFI Boot partition which is usually 99mb in Win10 , so perhaps you had win8 ? sorry long thread and a longtime since this started.

KB

 

basically, i want to try to use the virus checkers like was suggested because of the read-only problem on desktop files, etc. then try to use an in-place upgrade if that is what i need to do since the other solutions didn't work. hopefully, that will work instead of wipe the disk.. maybe HP had put windows 8 on the system before selling it as windows 10, but i don't know. maybe it is restore points from hp installations as opposed to windows restore points. it had downloaded some updates for the system.

i want to save data. simrick i think suggested that i save the os drive and data drive. i want to know what i need to backup. what is the data drive? macrium did not finish a download, and said i can download something from the main file before setup. i am not sure what it is talking about.

 

Macrium is just a safe guard now as anything imaged with it will still have the same read only issue BUT at least if something really bad happened you could at least get back to where you are now and try again.

You would use Macrium to Image the whole drive ie what Macrium sees as GPT Disk 1 and save it to a Folder on the WD Passport External you have, or what Macrium sees as MBR Disk2.

Macrium was probably trying to get WinPE 10 was it ? to make the Rescue boot CD ? it is about 150mb download for that , it can't make the rescue CD without it.

KB

 

it seems impossible to backup both. i can only make an image of Windows 10 onto the external drive which also has the read only issue. but do i need to do all of the recovery partitions or whatever to that drive, or just the OS section?

 

Just C: will save your Data , but for a 1st time Image Back up i would image the whole Drive as insurance 1st. You can also make one of Just C:\ too but you will already have it , with a full disk Image ,as Macrium allows you to only restore a certain partition if you need too.

Eset has a number of downloadable files for Virus removal to , especially if you remember any of the names of anything that was found from other Programs like Hitman , they maybe useful too , eg the Virlock removal program and others.

Stand-alone malware removal toolsESET Knowledgebase

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if I make the macrium image, will it automatically make the rescue media, or if I make the rescue media, will it automatically make the image?

 

no , you have to do both.....

 

is there a way to determine how much memory the rescue disk will take? do both the image and the rescue disk need to be the same disk? I see that the image will be a lot of GB and my external drive has a little over 200 gb left. the part to make the image will be around 128 or so gb

 

the rescue CD disk will be a 300mb approx. Burn it to a CDRW if you have one so you can update it later. it is totally different thing than the Backup Image.

you can delete the Backup image on the External , once you don't need it anymore and get the space back so don't worry.

KB