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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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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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I am unable to system restore the drive, though I have tried, thank you for your post
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Well as a last ditch effort u could always try ccleaner + combofix + hijackthis + tech forum =p
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United States17042 Posts
or you could try linux livecd to try to mount the drive and get everything off of it.
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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.
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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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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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I heard that SP3 was less safe than SP2.. if you can back to SP2...
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Did you run "chkdsk" on the drive? Should fix most errors.
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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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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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Belgium9950 Posts
Use a Knoppix LiveCD. If Knoppix can't access it, it's probably fucked.
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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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EPT
