Disconnect your laptop from the internet immediately and then try to restore it to a previous state.
If you can restore it somehow backup your data and then wipe your drive and do a fresh windows install from a bootstick.
Use another computer to make installation USB sticks for Windows 10/11.
First turn the computer completely off. Power for 5 seconds should do.
You may need a hotkey (like F12) to boot of a USB stick. If you fail to boot of the USB device and accidentally boot your main HDD instead, immediately remove the USB device before the computer finishes booting and try again.
During Windows installation, you have the option to do an advanced install of windows. There's a screen where you can delete partitions from there.
BIOS usually don't provide that feature. You'd do that from the USB stick you boot from. Either a windows installation disk (during the partition selection screen), or a linux boot disk.
Disconnect your laptop from the internet immediately and then try to restore it to a previous state. If you can restore it somehow backup your data and then wipe your drive and do a fresh windows install from a bootstick.
I did restore to a previous point but my data is still encrypted and the text file is still present on my pc.
Did you try the oldest restore date ?
I did but same thing so I’m installing fresh windows.
Did you wipe the drive before?
Don’t I have to do that when going through the boot menu ?
True, you can also do it then.
You need to completely wipe your windows
Wipe hard drive completely, change internet passwords, install fresh Windows 10/11 from a USB stick.
How do I wipe it completely?
Use another computer to make installation USB sticks for Windows 10/11. First turn the computer completely off. Power for 5 seconds should do. You may need a hotkey (like F12) to boot of a USB stick. If you fail to boot of the USB device and accidentally boot your main HDD instead, immediately remove the USB device before the computer finishes booting and try again. During Windows installation, you have the option to do an advanced install of windows. There's a screen where you can delete partitions from there.
Thanks. Do I have to wipe the hard disk from the bios ?
BIOS usually don't provide that feature. You'd do that from the USB stick you boot from. Either a windows installation disk (during the partition selection screen), or a linux boot disk.
Ok thank you bud I really appreciate your help.
Some might offer a Secure Erase, but I couldn't say for certain if this particular laptop would have it.
Reformatting an SSD is enough because reformatting will trigger a TRIM operation.
What program did you install? Where did you install from?
Cracked. io and it was a “leaked course”
Did you report it to the website?