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Beside_kr
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada902 Posts
August 13 2009 06:27 GMT
#1
I'm not exactly handy when it comes to computers so if you are, I would really appreciate the help. Usually I can just google an answer to my problem but this hasn't been possible so I thought I'd turn to TL before I seek professional help.

Today I may have received a virus through relatively standard web browsing, it wasn't a problem and I was able to contain it/get rid of it. However, I suspect it did something much more destructive than I first thought. After rebooting it has come to my attention that I can no longer access my second hard drive, it gives me a "the parameter is incorrect" error when I attempt to. People with similar problems online seem to mostly be saying "I deleted everything off the drive without reformatting and it gives me this error" the solution given is "reformat".

Is it possibly my second drive was wiped out? Is there any way of saving it? Or if this isn't the case, what should I do to make the drive usable again?

I'm running XP SP3

Thanks for reading, I really appreciate it.

*
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imBLIND
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2626 Posts
August 13 2009 06:35 GMT
#2
Wow thats pretty weird...

Did you try system restore?

It sounds like the virus did something to your registry...i haven't the slightest on how to actually fix this
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Beside_kr
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada902 Posts
August 13 2009 06:43 GMT
#3
I am unable to system restore the drive, though I have tried, thank you for your post
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imBLIND
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2626 Posts
August 13 2009 06:47 GMT
#4
Well as a last ditch effort u could always try ccleaner + combofix + hijackthis + tech forum =p
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GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
August 13 2009 06:53 GMT
#5
or you could try linux livecd to try to mount the drive and get everything off of it.
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CaptainPlatypus
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States852 Posts
August 13 2009 06:59 GMT
#6
On August 13 2009 15:53 GHOSTCLAW wrote:
or you could try linux livecd to try to mount the drive and get everything off of it.

This. Make a CD of your favorite Linux distribution (if you don't have one, Ubuntu is your favorite) and boot from it. If it recognizes your drives, I'd backup the data and then reformat them/replace it; if it doesn't, you can try a few more things but you're probably out of luck.
Beside_kr
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada902 Posts
August 13 2009 07:14 GMT
#7
okay, I will try this, It's really not the end of the world if I can't recover the stuff on my second-drive, it would just be a pain really, I just hoped there would be some quick-fix I overlooked. Frustrating, thank you though.
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The_Australian
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Australia458 Posts
August 13 2009 07:56 GMT
#8
You could ask Veg
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Vex
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Ireland454 Posts
August 13 2009 09:58 GMT
#9
strangest error ever
no idea how to fix it
linux boot cd sounds like your best bet, got me outa alot of pickles.
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GoSu
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Korea (South)1773 Posts
August 13 2009 10:00 GMT
#10
I heard that SP3 was less safe than SP2.. if you can back to SP2...
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Poland1142 Posts
August 13 2009 12:16 GMT
#11
Did you run "chkdsk" on the drive? Should fix most errors.
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SoulMarine
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States586 Posts
August 13 2009 14:51 GMT
#12
On a similar note, once I finished scanning my computer, and it said to hit "any key"

Where is the any key?
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StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
August 13 2009 17:22 GMT
#13
On August 13 2009 23:51 SoulMarine wrote:
On a similar note, once I finished scanning my computer, and it said to hit "any key"

Where is the any key?


its inside the keyboard you have to take it apart to find it

its clearly labeled "any key"
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RaGe
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Belgium9947 Posts
August 13 2009 18:56 GMT
#14
Use a Knoppix LiveCD. If Knoppix can't access it, it's probably fucked.
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coltrane
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Chile988 Posts
August 13 2009 20:12 GMT
#15
STOP!


some viruses are really dumb, they put a file called autoexec.bat on the root of a media, that file has instruccions to follow if you double click the media.

Dont double click it, explore it (with right click) and then look at the hidden files... and erase them.
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