HDD Repair is a rogue system defragmentation program, which always spreads via Trojans, fake system scanner or other malicious program downloads. Once gets onto the computer, the program will act almost the same as other rogue applications: it will automatically scan your computer for errors at Windows boots and scare you with numerous problems which cannot be fixed without its “Registered” version. However, this program is useless and should be immediately removed from the computer as it is capable of rip you off and block other legitimate programs from running properly. Most of the time, it will report:
“Critical Error
Windows can’t find hard disk space. Hard drive error”
“Critical Error
Windows was unable to save all the data for the file \System32\496A8300. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware.”
Don’t be scared by these fake system alerts- and the only thing that you should do is to immediately scan your computer and remove HDD Repair instantly from your computer.
For your convenience, I have set up detailed steps here for you to remove HDD Repair both manually and automatically from your computer. But you have to bear in mind that the manual removal is recommended to experienced computer users only as a simple mistake while modifying Windows registry will bring in unexpected permanent damages to the computer.
Method one: How to remove HDD Repair manually?
To manually remove HDD Repair fully from your computer, first you have to stop the below running processes:
Secondly, fully search your hard disk and remove these HDD Repair related files:
%Temp%\[random].exe
%Temp%\[random].dll
%Temp%\dfrg
%Temp%\dfrgr
%Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Desktop\HDD Repair.lnk
%Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Start Menu\Programs\HDD Repair
%Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Start Menu\Programs\HDD Repair\HDD Repair.lnk
%Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Start Menu\Programs\HDD Repair\Uninstall HDD Repair.lnk
Thirdly, open Registry Editor and remove all HDD Repair related entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random].exe”
Warning: This manual approach requires additional computer knowledge, it is suggested that you should remove it automatically with an advanced anti-spyware program. Otherwise a single mistake would cause irreversible problems to the entire system.
Method two: How to remove HDD Repair automatically?
1. Download and install Instant Spyware Remover on your computer.
2. Launch it and then click “Scan” to thoroughly scan your computer for any potential threats.
3. Click “Remove” after the scan finishes.
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