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a virus crashed my windows and data
Name: sachinh1 Date: August 28, 2003 at 01:10:39 Pacific OS: win98 CPU/Ram: pentium III
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Hi Guys and girls !! I was surfing the net and suddenly my PC logged out and rebooted automatically .. and I came to know that my windows is been crashed .. It changed all my file names to something like file0024 , file00249 etc ... I know I can format my disk .... but thing is that I want some of the important files . So whats the solution .. what anti-virus should I run (It should be able to run from dos mode as I cannot boot into windows ) .. I really need an immediate reply ....pls guys/girls help me out Thanx in advance !!!!
Name: Don Miller Date: August 28, 2003 at 05:47:49 Pacific
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And I presume you don't have a backup or ghost image you can restore from. If you have a very kind friend that has Norton Anti-Virus and made a Rescue Disk Set, you might be able to get some things repaired by booting from there.
You might also get some partial help by booting with a Setup disk and typing FDISK /MBR from the A:\ prompt. I'm pretty confident that there are DOS-Based anti virus programs around .. try a Google search. In the future, if your data is valuable, back it up .. or don't come whining.
Don M.
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Response Number 2
Name: DDS Date: August 28, 2003 at 08:20:08 Pacific
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I hear this is a good dos/bios A/V program? http://www,f-prot.com/ Good luck.
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Response Number 3
Name: Tom Date: August 28, 2003 at 08:36:34 Pacific
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That wasn't a virus that caused it. You have bad sectors or a bad partition table on your hard drive and the computer crashed because of that. It was scandisk that created the file0024 files.
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Response Number 4
Name: max Date: August 28, 2003 at 10:13:29 Pacific
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I think Tom is correct and FYI those files are normally useless. I doubt `very much' that you lost any of your files. Delete all the filexxxx files. To stop scandisk from creating them anymore do the following: Start Scandisk and click the `Advanced' button. In Cross-linked files select `Delete' In Lost File Fragments select `Delete'
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