Members rasputin1963 Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Ouch. Today, something inexplicably-- and in the space of only seconds--- totally wiped out, erased totally, my three extended drives. I'm on VISTA x64, and had partitioned my hard-drive into a C DRIVE containing my OS.... then had created three subsequent logical drives D, E and F. Now I have to do a little investigative work and figure out what did this... A virus? a trojan? Can I change my permissions such that only I (administrator) can access my drives? Thanks, ras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members deanmass Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Before you lose data, try this; http://www.grc.com/intro.htm Spin Rite. Not a fan of Vista so fan and I seem to remember this being a known bug, but I'll be damned if I can find it now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alndln2 Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 DRM in action perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 This is why I don't partition drives...each logical drive is a physical drive. IF one goes, it doesn't take the others down with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 13, 2008 Author Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 ...and may I add that, after I submitted this first post above, this bug went ahead and fully erased my C: OS drive as well. Leaving my computer completely blank and formatted clean. I had to fully re-install VISTA x64. Now it's D/L'ing all the copious updates due it. Quelle pain in the keester. All I can say is, VISTA has one helluva vulnerability for a bug to come along and do that so thoroughly, so quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jon Gnash Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 I had to fully re-install VISTA x64.Sorry I didn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jon Gnash Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 All I can say is, VISTA has one helluva vulnerability for a bug to come along and do that so thoroughly, so quickly.Yes. Before Vista your BIOS used to examine the partition table and decide which partition (which OS) to boot from. Now, Vista forces your BIOS to boot into Microsoft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 13, 2008 Author Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Sorry I didn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jon Gnash Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Jon, I would've thought so, too, except that my Windows Explorer showed there was absolutely no content on any of the disks! Zippo, zilch.Okay. Now I see what you mean. Nevermind. this thing/bug/virus deleted my C: DRIVE which contained the OS itself!I bet it just hid the files from you. I bet the files were still there. Once upon a time I had a (still do) Sony Viao running Windows Me, and it did the same thing you are describing. So maybe this has nothing to do with Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 13, 2008 Author Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Perhaps. But I'm not I'm a DOS guy and don't have the techie know-how to retrieve it without a conventional desktop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zygs Malone Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 I am so loathe to install one of those huge virus protection suites, as we all know they seem to commandeer the whole OS and bring the functioning of one's computer to a virtual standstill. How about AVG Free-http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe Works well, doesn't use a lot of resources, free virus updates daily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members deanmass Posted May 13, 2008 Members Share Posted May 13, 2008 Ras, PM me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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