HELP my HD!!!
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- pr2
Something weird happened, and all the sudden i have external HD full of files that didn't exit before (looks like a virus but McAfee doesn't detect anything). Moreover those files and folders have bullshit names and bs dates of creation (2057)... Whene i try to remove those files i can't... ANybody?
- Peter0
Your HD is possesed by bad spirit. Garlics, poles and chrisitan crosses are your only hopes.
- motivdesign0
How is y our drive formatted, and what OS are you running?
- pr2-1
Win XP Pro
FAT32
- motivdesign0
It sounds to me like something got at your partition tables and messed shit up.
1) Can you still read from and write to the drive?
2) Is this your boot drive?
- pr2-1
yeah, i can read and write (ofcourse only th files that existed before) -- it's external hd so it's not my boot.
- jox0
Have you tried deleting the files from DOS? And what extension do they have?
- pr2-1
random names, dates, sizes, extensions
- jox1
Move the files to another HD and re-format it?
- jox0
I meant... move the important files (if any) and format it
- pr2-1
...I got like 40 GB of stuff... Some of it unimportant. The question is if it happened one won't it happen again?
Does the fact that i got this HD 3 weeks ago as refurbished unit has something to do with it?
- jox1
Well if the crap files are locked, maybe you could restart the puter and try again? Sometimes they just locks for no reason..
And then try to delete them again? I doubt they will disappear just like that :)
- pr2-1
"Cannot read from the source file or disk" so it seems reformating is the only option...
- jox1
ouch, sounds like it seriously damaged then.. I'd get a new one if I was you (warranty right?), but then again that won't solve the files issue..
- unknown0
You bought a refurbished unit, did you checked it before you started to add stuff to it?
If it's a virus, then why your C: drive is not giving problems? Are the bogus files in one specific directory? Do you use KaZaA to download to that directory?
Open the DOS prompt and delete the files, if the files reside in one directory, then remove anything important and delete the whole directory, delete stuff you know is good and "you" saved on the directory
If you want delete everything, and reformat the drive.
You must be the only person I know that runs the newer versions of windows using FAT, or are you booting to LINUX or windows 9598?
:)
- pr2-1
It gives me that message only on files that are bogus. All other files are OK.
The unit was OK until it created those files -- i think i was using Pro Tools with Win98 when that happened.
I'm using FAT for that reason -- some of the software (like Pro Tools) isn't working on WinXP yet, so i have to have drive that would be Win98 complient.
- Nirvous0
I had this happen once, but it was not a virus for me.
If you cannot delete the files you may need to rename them first. If you cannot rename them you need to trick XP into thinking it is off.
Do this by cntrl-alt-del and then choose task manager.
Look at the processes running and stop explorer.exe. Leave this open and go to file run and then browse to that hard drive and rename the files you want to some other name or delete them from there.
When you are done (you still have the task manager open right?) choose run and then type explorer.exe again.
This should take you back to where you started. From here you can delete the newly named files, and XP cant stop you.
- sp0
Always low level a new drive. Even if it's fresh out of the factory.
You might also try using Mutilate free space wiper on it. Might clear any 'blank' junk files on the drive.