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Need help restoring lost data after nasty virus. Everything hidden.
I got a nasty virus a few days ago and my MSE and Malwarebytes kept taking care of it but it kept coming back.
Finally my computer crashed and upon reboot, EVERYTHING was gone. By gone my computer would still boot but it was loading a default desktop with ALL my icons gone and when I would try to access my C: drive, it showed that it was completely empty. Looking in "My Computer" the space was still used though.
Next looking at my D: and E: drives (2TB and 3TB WDC's) I found the same issue. My Computer showed the amount of space I expected to see take and free was correct but when I would access them, they were empty like freshly formatted drives.
I fired up a command window and did the following:
attrib -h -r -s /s /d X:\*.*
X being the drive letter in question at the time. This seems to have restored MOST of my folders on my D: and E: drives. However something were still locked out with the following style errors:
Access denied - E:\<Folder Name Here>
Some of the stuff was restored, a ton was not.
Also, some of the folders that were unhidden STILL show as "access denied" when I try to enter/access them. I can get into them as I'm an "admin" on this system but I'm curious as to why I get this error?
How do I just reset all my permissions so it's like it should be if the drive was FRESH.
Thanks!