Everything is OK now, my browser redirect issues have stopped, my back up disc works and I am now doing monthly back ups.
I have marked this thread as solved.
Thanks to all for your help.

I'm only backing up my 'C' drive, the stuff on the other drives can be replaced more easily.
Once again, thanks for your time and help in sorting my problems out.

OK, I'll try that later, Macrium is creating it's first back up, It's showing 4 hours remaining.
Many thanks for your help.
Paul

I ran Macrium, and the first thing it asked me to do was to create a rescue media disc. <br>I have done this by following the prompts but how do I test it without actually restoring from it?<br>Also...

All seems good now, I have restarted my PC and tried some programs and web browsing without issues.
Macrium has installed, I'll have a read through the user guide tomorrow.
I have plenty of hard...

Macrium is working, it hadn't downloaded properly, I downloaded it again and it's fine

The extra drive is permanently connected, it's in the tower, I have 3 hard drives in the tower.
Just tried to install Macrium and a message comes up saying this app can't run on your pc, I'll search...

OK, all done

OK, ran the registry cleaner 3 times.
First time 579 issues, second time 15 issues, third time 0 issues

OK, do I click Analyze or Run Cleaner?

I'm good to continue if that's ok with you

I've checked some of my programs and spent a few minutes browsing and opening various webpages, including the last one to give me a redirect, without any issues, so all seems to be good

All appears to be fine

Yes, and I've removed the items found by AdwCleaner, all seems to working as it should be

Yeah, I've still got the drive, it's an extra internal drive.
Can you link me to a good tutorial on how to do it?

What's the best way to do that?

I think I made one a few months ago, but I'm not sure what to do with it, I could look in to that if all else fails

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This is what it found, am I safe to delete them all?

Bugger!
Just browsing the internet, clicked on a website and it opened a window for Dark Era, some gaming site 321 or something.
This is after deleting the tracking cookies and PUP's found by...

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Screenshot of the scan result. Hopefully removing these will solve my problem, thanks for your help.
I will report back in a couple of days and let you know.
Cheers,
Paul

Thanks for that, I'm running a scan now....

Hi,
Thanks for your reply, I have looked in Programs and Features but can't see anything unusual in there and have cleared all history and refreshed firefox.
Paul

Hi all,

I think I have techbrowsing.com browser redirector on my PC.
Occasionally my browser (firefox) will go to the techbrowsing page or a random page, like russian dating or slimspots or...

An update, I have been away for a couple of nights, my pc has been switched off at the plug socket whilst I was away. Got home today, turned on the pc and my hard drive is visible and accessible...

The drive you can't see on the screenshot is another external harddrive (F) drive 7 on the disk management screenshot.
The drive that now can't be seen (G) drive was always plugged in. That way when...