Help me..please

[Diego]

Ok I am a bit stumped..I need help.

Ok i am worried this virus that is going around actually ****ed up my hd.

Does anyone know if your hd is NTFS and your C drive is Fat32, can windows read your HD? (the ntfs one)

b/c the bios can detect my HD but when i reinstalled winxp last night under fat32 my huge HD isnt showing up.

I am freaking out b/c my NTFS hd has heaps of work and I am scared i lost it all.

arrkk stress stress..

cheers

 

[Mobbs]

No idea what you're talking about!

Can't help yer, sorry.

 

[Diego]

It's cool.

I lost my HD and 3 months of work, mp3's downloads etc.

The ****en virus is far from harmless. Let me just warn people.

 

[grimlock]

This may help

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20641036.html

I don't think the its to do with the virus.

 

[Diego]

Well since i got the virus my hd have been ****ed.

I the other night I fell asleep leaving my machine left on. When i woke the next morning my machine frooze and when trying to reboot it would just sit on the xp blue scan disk screen.

Then when i would skip after rebooting it just hanged on a balck screen.

Its funny that this happened after I got the virus.

I am fearing that while I left my machine running over night the virus would have spread. But this virus is suppose to be harmless right?


Confused

 

[Desredandwhite]

Well, lets work through this... The worm going around isn't "harmful" as far as I know. IIRC it only just reboots your machine whenever it feels like. Of course, I wouldn't know. Doesn't affect my OS X machine

Anyways. So you're saying the other HDD isn't showing up after you reinstalled windows? BIOS knows it's there, so obviously the machine can read it.

Try this. Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management. Then go to Storage > Disk Management. See if it's recognising your second HDD and that it's allocated a drive letter to it.

Good luck!

 

[M29]

Originally posted by Frosties_Flank
Does anyone know if your hd is NTFS and your C drive is Fat32, can windows read your HD? (the ntfs one)

XP/NT/2000 Yes, everything else, no. Including DOS bootdisks.

After installing XP again, it should 'see' the NTFS partition/HD.

By the way, did you try to re-format the HD?

 

[jim boy]

I'm a little confused by this.

Am I right in thinking that you have two drives, the first being the system drive that is partitioned and formatted as fat32 and the second being a data repository that is partioned and formatted as NTFS??

Did you completely reinstall the system disk, or did you do a repair job? If you did a reinstall of the system disk, as opposed to reparing it, you'll have lost all of security data that relates to the second disk. In other words, you're new Win XP install won't necessarily have permission to view the data disk.

 

[mighty mick]

Originally posted by Frosties_Flank
It's cool.

I lost my HD and 3 months of work, mp3's downloads etc.

The ****en virus is far from harmless. Let me just warn people.

sorry FF but you may of got hacked into or another virus noone who has shown up at work to get the patch from us has had anything more than the system shutting done, and nothing else

 

[Diego]

I guess I freaked out a little bit and didn't know what was going on. A coincidence that this all happened around the time of this harmless virus.

Anyway I needed to re install my OS and this was a perfect excuse.

I finally did what Des said and to my delight my HD was back, untouched. I know for next time I suppose.

The thing is I took into this computer shop I know around the corner and the dodgy **** told me the hd was gone and wanted to charge me 20 bucks to reformat it. I told him to **** off and left.

Anyway its all good now and thanks for the advice guys.