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 Posted: Wed, 13th Dec 2006 02:20 Post subject: ALMOST! |
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I found out today that my comp is infected...Goldun trojan as I soon found out. I haven't used antivirus or firewall since I got x64 windows installed, but I scanned them now and then and I never had a problem. I have no idea how that thing got into my system but I was unable to remove it, I tried about 5 different antivirus programs and they all detected it but removal was unsucessful. I assumed it was protected by a rootkit, and it was, sadly there are no rootkit removers for 64bit windows.
SInce this is my second larger windows problem in 4 weeks I decided to take this as a sing from god and decided to format my HDD and install Vista. I quickly "backed up" all my data onto my E partition. (I have 3 partitions, C for windows, D for apps and games, and E for data, my documents and pretty much everything important to me). I never format my E partition...
So I started Vista installation, got to the choose install partition and found out that my C isn't large enough(10GB), and I need 14GB. So I decided to merge my C and D. I'm old fashioned and I use fdisk (extended fdisk actually). So I deleted C and D, and I was very very careful not to touch E. But for some reason my E drive stayed in the middle of two "Unallocated Space"-s... so I couldn't merge them, unless I deleted E aswell(I assume). I couldn't do that so I just decided to reverse the C and D, making D 10GB and C 50GB. I did it, but I made them NTFS, and I couldn't format that in DOS, and so on I changed the partitions and stuff. Finally when I tought I had it I started the vista isntallation again and it still didn't want to install...now I went back to xfdisk and changed the partitions again a bit(again I didn't even touch E). This time tho, I noticed that my E suddenly became D; I assumed it was trivial what letter it is, since the space remained the same. I upated the partiton table and started windows installation again.
And here's when the fun begins; vista still wouldn't install, but that wasn't the issue, the issue is that 130GB of my E drive is now being reported as UNALLOCATED SPACE. WTF!? Omg that drive has everything that is dear to me...savegames from about 20 games(5 of which I planned to finish during holidays, and I was really looking forward to them because I'm working hard to college and don't have time for games), I had my game engine(that I have been programming for years), my e-book, my mp3 collection. None of which I have backed up.
I tried moving the partitions back and forth, nothing worked, I swear I had tears in my eyes and I would have cried if my roomie wasn't here. I spent about 3 hours in absolute terror, at one point thinking this must be a fucking bad dream, it can't be true, my whole life is on that drive.
I used my laptop to search for different recovery utilited, none of which worked. I dabbled with xfdisk again and managed to make Active@ Partition Recovery utility work. OMG I cannot belive that thing worked so well, it detected my original partitions in few seconds(even though I reformatted and changed the table about a dozen times). I saw my old files  I was so happy. But unfortunately it was just a demo version and I had real trouble finding a full version, I was prepared to buy the program but then I found it on a crack website. Anyways I have my drive back right now, I'm so happy.
No Vista yet tho...plus I forgot to send my resume for a project I hoped to worked on, and today was the deadline...that's what happens when I wait till last minute.
Sorry for the long read, I had to tell someone
Off to sleep now finally, cya
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| Posted: Wed, 13th Dec 2006 03:12 Post subject: |
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Glad it worked out in the end. All my good stuff I back up. I almost lost everything a couple of years ago but I recovered it.
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| Posted: Wed, 13th Dec 2006 04:55 Post subject: |
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Yeah, you don't actually realise how valuable the data you have on your computer is, until you almost lose it.
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deelix
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| Posted: Wed, 13th Dec 2006 08:35 Post subject: |
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wow, there are comming viruses to x64 too.. hmm.
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werdercanuck
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| Posted: Wed, 13th Dec 2006 20:08 Post subject: |
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i always back up everything, and i mean everything. never had a HD crash or lost anything ever. but i'll bet, if i dont back up something important it will happen asap...murphy's law y'know 
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Ankh
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WaldoJ
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| Posted: Wed, 13th Dec 2006 20:23 Post subject: |
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Yeh, I don't get why people get upset.
I lost 160gbs of fav movies/tunes/games and I just downloaded on album as soon as I fixed everything and it lasted with me for a while till I reclaimed my collection. 
On my mac I backup everything. I have so much stuff on it, that took me ages to find. 
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| Posted: Wed, 13th Dec 2006 20:46 Post subject: |
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I lost 1 disc of my created movies once, because of a worm and because i did not verify burned cd, but generally I'm precautious.
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WaldoJ
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| Posted: Wed, 13th Dec 2006 20:51 Post subject: |
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Oooooooo!
Yeah that I understand. When you lose your work, it can get evil!
I lost my protfolio once and had to call up people for who i did things and asked for their only copies  Embarassing
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Bigperm
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| Posted: Wed, 13th Dec 2006 21:15 Post subject: |
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Good to hear it worked out for ya.
I remerber i redid my comp, thought i had everything backed up.
I forgot to backup all my radient projects. All my Q3 mapping was gone, i thought.
Almost a year later i fire up my Ipaq, and low and behold, i backup up all my maps to my CF card. Even though my textures were lost, at least all my design work(My .map and .bsp files) was still there.
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| Posted: Wed, 13th Dec 2006 23:13 Post subject: |
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i didnt care to read any of this and im glad i didnt 
i lost 120gb of movies when i dropped my external drive ::
luckely they were my friends so i can still get them (legally offcourse)
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| Posted: Fri, 15th Dec 2006 15:23 Post subject: |
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Yeah, good for you. Btw this should teach you to make some backups eh?
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