Linux to repair c drive

[MSmitty]

My c drive was infected and won't boot. Several ideas and attempts to repair but no avail.
I have a thumb drive loaded w program to clean drive, now I'm stuck at command prompt. unfortunately, I'm far behind the eight ball on this one. Any help? Sorry if Im in wrong forum...

grub>

 

[MSmitty]

Friend who gave me thumb drive said it would clean the virus on my C drive upon boot, but all I get is this, and I have no knowledge how to run the program, what syntax or commands to use

 

[MSmitty]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, unfortunately in my frustrations I didn't provide background.
I am using Win7 OS and had tech support virus shut down c drive- won't boot at all. Friend gave thumb drive, it booted up, I set removable as first drive. Then very fast flash on screen showed SYSLINUX (I believe he wrote program on Lynux?) Then went to command - grub> (see photo) here is where I'm stuck. I've tried reading tutorials, not helping me figure this out. It's 2:28 am for me, friend sleeping, won't get to bring him thumb drive to reconfigure for couple days, then couple more to get it back. Need info on c drive asap, desperately!

 

[upnorth]

I've tried reading tutorials, not helping me figure this out. It's 2:28 am for me, friend sleeping, won't get to bring him thumb drive to reconfigure for couple days, then couple more to get it back. Need info on c drive asap, desperately!

This might help : How to Rescue a Non-booting GRUB 2 on Linux

You could also simply try type " boot " and hit Enter on your keyboard and see what happens.

 

[ZeroDay]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge, unfortunately in my frustrations I didn't provide background.
I am using Win7 OS and had tech support virus shut down c drive- won't boot at all. Friend gave thumb drive, it booted up, I set removable as first drive. Then very fast flash on screen showed SYSLINUX (I believe he wrote program on Lynux?) Then went to command - grub> (see photo) here is where I'm stuck. I've tried reading tutorials, not helping me figure this out. It's 2:28 am for me, friend sleeping, won't get to bring him thumb drive to reconfigure for couple days, then couple more to get it back. Need info on c drive asap, desperately!

So you basically need to scan your C drive and remove an infection preventing your C Drive from booting? Personally I'd use Kaspersky rescue disk first. If you've got your date backed up I'd follow the above guide for gparted it comes pre-installed on most Ubuntu based live USB distributions. Just make a bootable Linux mint usb, Click on the start menu, type GParted, hit enter, delete your hard disk, then select 'Devices' create an MBR or GPT partition table whichever suits you best, then create a new partition (In this case the whole drive) select NTFS for the file system them click apply. Then reinstall Windows. Obviously you're going to need a second machine to create the bootable USB. But if it's an infected C drive you need to clean I'd definitely try Kaspersky rescue CD first. If not follow the above guide for GParted:

How to Create a Bootable Linux USB Flash Drive, the Easy Way

You're going to need a second machine to create a new USB drive either way unless you have a system imagine.

 

[Deleted member 178]

infection = reformat + clean install; don't waste your time fixing unless you have very sensitive/important files that can't be saved.

 

[zzz00m]

Copy your C: drive to a backup USB drive first. You can use a bootable live Linux, like Ubuntu or Mint to do that. That should preserve your files.

Then reformat your C: drive and clean install Windows.