IF your BiaB folder is intact, and you have used all default settings when installing, just go into it and find the "bbw" icon (it should be a little ways after the "Band-in-a-Box 2011-12-etc Manual" files, List View will help here) right Click & drag it to your desktop and Create A Shortcut. I have done this probably 100 times on a 100 nuke & paves, and it has always linked right up & found everything.

Make sure you use the bbw Icon, not the bbw3 or BBWICO ones!

And speaking of nuke & paves, don't just re-install onto the drive that got infected, or reuse it for something else, until ya do a "zero fill" and let it go. For my 1TB drive it takes about 2 days, but it will overwrite 99.9% of the software on the drive. If the program you are using has it, also do a complete wipe of the MBR before AND after your zero fill.

And I am a Acronis fan, Ghost always gave me problems. Even the Acronis versions that came with my Seagate, Maxtor, and WD HDD install disk worked better FOR ME than Ghost...

Of course this is a IMHO, YMMV, yada yada type of post....


i5 3.20GHz, 32gb RAM, 1tb SSD OS, 12tb HDD, 4gb gForce vid card, 32" monitor, Audient id44, Win10 x64, BiaB/RB 2023, Reaper 6,IK Multimedia Total Studio 3.5 MAX, Waves 10