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Originally posted by Orbital32 Easy, its screw ups your registry and/or possibly your Master Fat Table. Either one screws up.. youzzz fuck. Hopefully you have made an Emergency Repair disk in windows, that will fix it. Which reminds me i need to do that!

hey hey hey. an emergency repair disk will fix this? can i make one now? can i use one from another PC? elaborate plasee.

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Originally posted by Inertia hey hey hey. an emergency repair disk will fix this? can i make one now? can i use one from another PC? elaborate plasee.

fortunaley, you can't make it on another computer. it's computer, files, harware specific. But on a good note, if you use a ERD disk from another computer you'll probably just screw up the computer even more. Its one of those things that you should do about once a week.

Let me get this right you tried sending them a good few times then they all went to random numbers?

Sounds to me like whatever you were using converted them for transmission (surprising that it didn't just on the fly backup and convert them - unless you bulk sent a folder?) then promptly fell on it's arse and left them in the screwed state. No virus.

I'd check the temp folder (though to be honest these sounds like what should be in there so will probebly have nothing) could be some in there. Try a "*.mp3" search across all drive to see if the dumb program backed them up anywhere.

If not I'd look on the net for similar problems with the software (might have some file hidden somewhere which is ment to rename the files after transmission, maybe even contained within the file?). If the ID tags are still there and they run it sounds like it was just the names that got screwed, could take awhile if there isn't a way to use the tag data to rename them (could write a script I supose?) to rename them but you could.

Anyway first port of call the forums for the transmission software.

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Have you tried using windows system restore?

oh btw it looks like you have a virus.

just format.

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Originally posted by MLB Have you tried using windows system restore? oh btw it looks like you have a virus.

What conclusion lead you to that? Just because there are random numbers?

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Originally posted by Orbital32 What conclusion lead you to that? Just because there are random numbers?

had the same problem in the past, was some sort of virus i checked last time.

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Originally posted by MLB had the same problem in the past, was some sort of virus i checked last time.

few virsus are limit renaming only to limiting a directory, in his case /incoming/
most would search the hard drives particualry for mp3 files or such. He states that everything else is intact. Apparently since he his place runs on generators and is seems that he had hard shut downs in the past, its most likey a registry or MFT problem. Actually now that i think of it, it's probalby the second.


Hmmmm....

a light bulb just hit me!

if he using NTFS, the the operating system automactically creates a backup of the MFT in the middle of the drive. IF this is such the case, the its just a simple reconfiguring of the MBR then waaalaa! you are golden! hooray me!

If the files are fully intact and just need to be renamed. Perhaps you can use a mass-rename tool, such as the one built in Foobar2000, to name the files from tags.

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Originally posted by ali92 If the files are fully intact and just need to be renamed. Perhaps you can use a mass-rename tool, such as the one built in Foobar2000, to name the files from tags.

win, only mp3s were affected amirite?

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there were other files renamed too, even outside the 'incoming folder'



current situation: power went out. so effectively, a reboot. i'm on my sister's PC atm, because when it rebooted, it just went to a black screen saying NTDR is missing, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart



so, where to from here?

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also, i got to run an AV scan before the power died. trend micro online scanner + panda AV, and both were inconclusive. a couple of spyware crapplings, but nothin that looked anywhere capable of doing this

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