Dead HD
Hey this is Surge from ICrontic here on Wug's name. Alright im at his house now because well my HD died or something. It started like 2 nights ago and it would take FOREVER to open up a window and everyhing started locking up. Well i was real busy until tonight and it was really getting me annoyed. I scanned for virii and well after scanning everything it found one virus (Trojan Dropper) and it cleaned it... i restarted the comp.. and then it never ran again. It froze right when it gets into windows. Now when i access it here on his comp... it takes forever AGAIN and when i copy a file froim my HD to his... it says "Cannot copy file: Cannot read from the source file or disk."
Is there ANY way i can get my stuff backed up and then throw this HD out? Am i done for?
Is there ANY way i can get my stuff backed up and then throw this HD out? Am i done for?
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"These types of programs are not "Trojan programs" themselves, but they are written by hackers, and are frequently used to deploy viruses, Trojan programs and backdoors to victim machines.
These "TrojanDroppers" are programs that silently (with no messages at all, or with some fake message) extract from themselves, drop to disk files and spawn one or more extra programs that are stored in (or attached to) the main "TrojanDropper" file.
Usually, the structure of such programs appears as follows:
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The "Main code" extracts other components ("file1", "file2", ...), drops them to a disk (to disk C: root, to Windows or Windows system directory, to TEMP directory, etc.) and opens (spawns) these files.
Usually, one (or more) file(s) in there is/are Trojans or backdoors, and at least one file is a "decoy" component - a joke program, game, or some other kind of attractive program. This is done in order to deceive a user and disguise the Trojan/backdoor installation, using a decoy component.
As a result of using this type of "deploy packages," hackers achieve two goals:
a.. deceive a user and install a virus, Trojan, or backdoor silently, often hidden by a "decoy" program
b.. avoid detection by anti-virus scanners, most of which cannot scan inside such packages"
-Kapersky Lab
It looks like your hard drive may have been wanked by a malicious program spawned by the trojan dropper.
If not, you may have an expensive door stop. If the data is really important, those data recovery companies can help you out.
Good luck.
Try (from his machine) from a command prompt:
chkdsk X: /f /x /r
Where X: is the drive mount, if it says it needs to restart to do it, just agree.
NS
If i reinstall windows XP, would i buy myself time?
i can open it up...and i can see all the files. but i cant move anything...whats up with his hd
I think in this case, worst case scenario you'll just need to format your drive. But to recover your data you going to need to repair the problem with the disk. Like PS suggested, getting a repair tool from your drives manufactuer is your best bet.
I had a lot of problems like this with my old IBM75GXP's, they used to mis-write all the time, I mean that was obviously caused by a hardware fault and not a virus but the result was the same. I simply had to use IBM's disk repair program which 9/10 times was succesfull in repairing the drive.
Give that ago then get back to us.
SPINNER
addmendum- What I think went wrong. The program worked on two other computers fine before this one. The difference was that I decided to install the program in a custom directory instead of the default one. Not recommended on system apps. Even after i uninstalled and followed the default, I corrupted something somewhere that could not be fixed because like a fool, after I got my boot working again I re-installed the prog and guess what...Luckily I still had a clean reg backup in the system but it was the last one. Whew!
Cheers
SPINNER