Question I am pretty sure I have malware that I can't remove (users folder is locked) ?

[fizzyElf]

Yesterday out of a sudden the computer went to BIOS and acted like there was no Windows in my drive anymore.

Tried to reinstall Windows, had a bunch of issues throughout the last 2 days with write protection (tried everything). I just figured the SSD died somehow and ordered a new one.

Then earlier today I put my old SSD from a different PC into the new PC and it booted. Great, not a motherboard issue. Then I see that my new SSD (the "broken" one) still has all the data and was not touched, despite me cleaning in 50+ times in diskpart while troubleshooting.

Well, I went to the users folder and I see this -

https://imgur.com/a/8WDARzx

View: https://imgur.com/a/8WDARzx
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If I try to make ANY changes in the settings of that folder, I get this -

https://imgur.com/a/pDDS4Fu

View: https://imgur.com/a/pDDS4Fu
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For the past few hours I have been going out of my way to figure out how to fix it but no luck so far. The drive is definitely corrupted -

https://imgur.com/a/NS5sSJQ

View: https://imgur.com/a/NS5sSJQ
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Any suggestions at this point? I have full access to all the other folders on the currented drive (E) besides Users\MY_USER. Have full access to the old drive (C) -

https://imgur.com/a/CI2vBcE

View: https://imgur.com/a/CI2vBcE
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Any suggestions at this point? I tried all the suggestions I found online in the last 2 hours (below), nothing worked so far.

• Registry changes.
• Permissions in diskpart.
• Permissions in File Explorer.

Kinda amazed actually at the situation.

 

[eatfood768]

best way to try to solve a malware problem would be to just backup anything u need onto a usb and try to manually erase data off the ssd if you know what ur doing

 

[fizzyElf]

best way to try to solve a malware problem would be to just backup anything u need onto a usb and try to manually erase data off the ssd if you know what ur doing

I will gladly erase the data but I can't. it says write protected no matter what I do -

https://imgur.com/a/GeDPP4X

View: https://imgur.com/a/GeDPP4X

 

[Deleted member 14196]

The ssd may have failed. In read only mode now apparently. Put it in a different PC and try to format it there if it doesn’t work then this SSD is bad