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Virus hit, restored now slave drive corrupted! Win7 64bit
Not a techie so I will explain as simply as I can, last nite got a email in my spam opened it and deleted it. Next all hell broke loose one of these spyware viruses poped up, you know it just keeps on running no matter what you do. I tried to stop it using the task manager but no luck. Final soultion was jut to turn off the pc and plug in my exernal HD and restored my operting system in my C: drive using Acronis.
Well that went just fine and I'm back up and running. But I also have 2 slave drives D: and K: K is where I have all my photos, files and music stored and I use Acronis to back them up into my D: drive.
So I go to open my D: drive and it says folder is empty yet if I look at it in MY Computer it says that there are a lot of files in there. So I popped in my Acronis Disk and booted from that thinking that I could at least find the back up in there but nothing. It did show another backup still in there from my camera that the Acronis file was corrupted.
Next was to check my K: drive that had the actuall Folders of Music, Files, Photos etc. The folders are still there and they show somthing is in there but when I open them up there are empty. There are also still a few folders in there with the files still in them.
Would there be any way to see what is in either D: or K:? Somting is in there but I really suspect that its just junk from what ever hit my PC. Should I just erase both of these drives and start fresh?
From now on I think I will never leave my back up slave drive in my PC I will put it in my external doc when I want to back up somthing. Just like I did with my C: master back up which is in a external HD.
MY OS:
Ie8
Win7 64 bit
Alienware Aurora
C: Master
D: Slave
K: Slave
Acronis Home 2011
Zone Alarm Security Suite (latest)
Yahoo Mail
Gmail
Hope I explained this well enough, sorry I do not have any info on the virus as I had to restore my operating system.