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| Inertia |
| when it happened, i had slsk opened, was sending files to a friend. i cued up 3 folders (ie. the names were there). hit send, and all the transfers failed. i retried, failed again. i checked, and everything is now numbers. |
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| Inertia |
| quote: | Originally posted by venomX
That works, you could also try doing a checkdisk on your harddrive.
Goto Start
Click Run
Type cmd, then hit ok.
Type chkdsk /R
Type Y for yes.
Reboot.
If your machine is running, your drive is prolly not damaged, windows might have just screwed up. |
i did this. but isn't it a good idea to try other things before a reboot? i have yet to reboot. |
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| emc^2 |
| quote: | Originally posted by venomX
That works, you could also try doing a checkdisk on your harddrive.
Goto Start
Click Run
Type cmd, then hit ok.
Type chkdsk /R
Type Y for yes.
Reboot.
If your machine is running, your drive is prolly not damaged, windows might have just screwed up. |
DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
SOorry dude, this is wrong. If he has FS corruption, checkdisk will find the files that are "oprahaned" and rename them to .chk and consider them lost.
your best bet sysinternals ERD |
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| EXTREMUM |
Plain and simple - run your anti-virus program.
I hope you have a backup, of your My Documents folder.
Good luck. Next time, don't tell me to myself. |
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| emc^2 |
| quote: | Originally posted by EXTREMUM
Plain and simple - run your anti-virus program.
I hope you have a backup, of your My Documents folder.
Good luck. Next time, don't tell me to myself. |
Just curious: say it were the case of virus. how would antivirus help after virus already ed things up? Please enlighten me. Users like you make my job a nightmare and plain scare me.
Oh and as you could (or in your case couldn't) see - he doesn't kepe his music in "My documents". do you try to sounds smart or do you actually know what the hell you're talking about? |
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| Ivand |
| in pwnt, extremum, not you inertia |
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| Inertia |
| quote: | Originally posted by emc^2
DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
SOorry dude, this is wrong. If he has FS corruption, checkdisk will find the files that are "oprahaned" and rename them to .chk and consider them lost.
your best bet sysinternals ERD |
where can i get Sysinternals ERD NOW? (pm if necessary) |
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| EXTREMUM |
| quote: | Originally posted by emc^2
Just curious: say it were the case of virus. how would antivirus help after virus already ed things up? Please enlighten me. |
So, you think virii in your computer only attack once? They stay on the drive, and don't remain dormant - this isn't a human body.
| quote: | Originally posted by emc^2
Oh and as you could (or in your case couldn't) see - he doesn't kepe his music in "My documents". do you try to sounds smart or do you actually know what the hell you're talking about? |
After two years of technical school, four years of college background, and ten years of technical job experience, I sure do know what I'm talking about. It doesn't matter, where he keeps his music. Evidently, a virus screwed up his My Documents folder, and needs to be dealt with, before the entire drive gets screwed. Worst case scenario, if his drive is backed up properly, he can safely do a clean OS reinstall. |
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| Inertia |
| quote: | Originally posted by EXTREMUM
Evidently, a virus screwed up his My Documents folder, and needs to be dealt with, before the entire drive gets screwed. |
read again: everything has been renamed (although the file still work, should they be opened with the proper programs) EXCEPT the contents of My Documents, Windows, and Program Files folders. |
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| Orbital32 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Inertia
WHAT THE ING .
i am going to play an mp3 in winamp, i open the add file, and go to my music files. ALL MY FOLDERS ARE RENAMED. to numbers. random ing strings of numbers. all the files as well. extensionless ing strings of numbers. ALL OF MY FILES. everything in /Program Files/ and in My Documents is still intact, and everything on my other drive. WHAT THE ING .
does ANYONE know what this can be? PLEASE HELP ME. |
Pretty much this happens after a hard shutdown or after a power surge or if you hard drive is fuller then full. Its kinda like being cooler then cool! :p
Like it been suggusted run chkdsk. But luckily, while chkdsk can fix problems, it also causes even more problems.
Fortuanley there is an easy fix. All you have to do is get another drive with the same sectors and size, and image the drive. on the new drive the only thing you would have to do attempt to run on the new drive run chkdsk, and any files that still exist would just have to be renamed. woohoo! |
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| venomX |
| quote: | Originally posted by emc^2
DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
SOorry dude, this is wrong. If he has FS corruption, checkdisk will find the files that are "oprahaned" and rename them to .chk and consider them lost.
your best bet sysinternals ERD |
I agree with you depending on where the corruption happened. If the machine is running fine i doubt the corruption is of the whole MFT, its more likely just those sectors and chkdsk will correct the errors in the sectors. chkdsk might be more damaging only if the sectors are physically fux0red, because then the files will be lost. if it happened because of a particular program, the program probably just messed up those particular entries in the MFT and chkdsk can fix that. |
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