Backing up files on a badly malware infested computer.

[Ric Moore]

On 01/23/2012 06:27 PM, Bill Stanley wrote:
> Maybe you people might be able to figure out something. It concerns
> installing unbuntu on a very badly malware infested Windows machine.
> Also note that I don't fix computers as my job. I'm doing this as a
> favor for my sister and at this point, fixing this has become a personal
> challenge. I'm retired so time is not a problem, otherwise I wouldn't
> take this challenge. (I'm not going to let this beat me!) Now the problem

It might be better if you mention which version of Windows, what kind of 
machine it's installed to, regarding the specific hardware, like CPU and 
amount of ram. If you want to retain Windows and install Ubuntu in a 
newly created partition, there's lots of howtos to follow. Just defrag 
and optimize the harddrive first, using the Windows tools. If you have 
at least 20 GIGs of free space, create your install partition there 
using the install CD. If you can get more than 20 gigs, it would be 
better as you can copy files on the Windows partition safely to the 
Linux Partition for backup. Then, reformat the Windows partition and 
mount it someplace like /opt and store the personal docs and files 
there. If a re-install is ever needed the good stuff is safely out of 
the way. Ric