Hi I am completely new here and I need a lot of help. My user abilities are basically non existent . please help me .
I am a Linux mint user but totally inadequate to do anything other than surf the web ; I don't type so I don't know all the intricacies of the keyboard .
I also use win 10. I just installed win 10 on a 1tb drive . after setup last nite i returned this morning and was about to activate my installation ; I brought up edge browser and typed in google and immediately a full screen tab came up and a loud voice was telling me that my computer had a virus and if I didn't call them , " Microsoft " , my computer would be disabled . I didn't realize I could minimize the page and gain my real browser back. I was sure it was a scam but didn't know how to get away so I hit my power reset button on my tower. Now when I try to boot into win 10 my screen says something like " missing operating system " .
I am capable of repartitioning and reinstalling etc. but am very concerned about my HDD, bios ,and MBR and don't know the first thing about scanning and securing it, them, for the future .
I spoke with Sophos live chat and was directed to some appropriate tools and to this Forum and I really hope someone can help me figure what the best tools are for my situation and get some help implementing them . whatever info might be needed about my system and several HDD's please just let me know .
thank you very much jcc
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