My computer crashed in an unexplained manner. (I am using my wife's). It started with the apparent malfunction of a wired printer. They I began to get Blue Screens of Death. Then my wireless printer stopped working. More BSOD.
At that point I swapped out the hard drive for a backup clone I made three weeks ago. That seemed to fix things and I tried making a new clone from that H. D. just in case. Cloning attempts failed on two different spare H.D.s using to different systems... a dock, and an earlier USB wire system.. After several attempts, at cloning, Blue Screen of Death again (note that was on the clone I made three weeks ago. When I ran CHKDSK / R from an elevated command prompt, after running for hours a normal screen appeared and things seemed normal again... even the wireless printer was working gain.
However, when I woke it from sleep this AM, there was no screen at all and the hard drive was accelerating to the point where I though it was going to self-destruct and I powered off. Tried a couple of times to start it, no screen, H.D. runs away.
The only thing I can figure is that some time before making my clone three weeks ago, I picked-up a worm that sat dormant for a time and then began to mess with the print drivers, and other operational functions, and was cloned onto the H.D. that I used in an attempt to rescue my computer (Windows 10 pro. op system).
Can anyone shed any light on what happened to my computer? I really do not understand this at all.
Note: I have a new system ordered, will get here in 5-7 days.
At that point I swapped out the hard drive for a backup clone I made three weeks ago. That seemed to fix things and I tried making a new clone from that H. D. just in case. Cloning attempts failed on two different spare H.D.s using to different systems... a dock, and an earlier USB wire system.. After several attempts, at cloning, Blue Screen of Death again (note that was on the clone I made three weeks ago. When I ran CHKDSK / R from an elevated command prompt, after running for hours a normal screen appeared and things seemed normal again... even the wireless printer was working gain.
However, when I woke it from sleep this AM, there was no screen at all and the hard drive was accelerating to the point where I though it was going to self-destruct and I powered off. Tried a couple of times to start it, no screen, H.D. runs away.
The only thing I can figure is that some time before making my clone three weeks ago, I picked-up a worm that sat dormant for a time and then began to mess with the print drivers, and other operational functions, and was cloned onto the H.D. that I used in an attempt to rescue my computer (Windows 10 pro. op system).
Can anyone shed any light on what happened to my computer? I really do not understand this at all.
Note: I have a new system ordered, will get here in 5-7 days.