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Solve : Stumped Cannot Rename Volume label on Hard Drive?

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few years ago when Kazaa first came out I was playing a game with a buddy till 4am & at the time didn't know anything about port forwarding so I just opend my pc up with DMZ. Since I played till I couldn't see straight went straight to be leaving my machine wide OPEN.

Next morning forgot all about DMZ being open & went right to Kaza & Downloaded an mp3 file. Periodically after downloading files & would check to see if file was complete. This time I looked down & the file name was BonJovi.Mp3.VBS

Upon further investigation I found that all of my Mp3 & .Jpg files were named as follows: .Mp3.vbs & .jpg.vbs right then & there I knew I was slammed with a VIRUS. Since I built the PC I figured I would just chalk it up as a loss & reformat the drive to WIPE it clean & do a complete fresh install of the os.

I got to the part where it asks you to name the Volume in FDISK but then I saw that the name of the Volume was in characters much like the ones you see on Playing cards.

They Looked like Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs & spades. To this day I STILL have the hard drive but no Idea how to clean it: have tried using it as a Master & also as a slave but I cannot find an application to rename the files in DOS sinceI do not have the characters.

I know the Hard Drive was Manufactures in 2003 & made by samsung & spinpoint series model# SP800H I mostlikely at the time was using Win98se

Some people I taked to at local PC shops thought it may be the I Love You Virus but that's all I know................... Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank in advance?
ID10tWhat exactly is your problem? You want us to identify a virus that is probably long gone?

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I know the Hard Drive was Manufactures in 2003 & made by samsung & spinpoint series model# SP800H I mostlikely at the time was using Win98se

Past tense, you see. I would like to re-use the hard drive as back up data or to be able to re-install OS so it can function as a normal Hard drive again.

Problem is I can't do anything till I am able to Format the drive & re-install OS
I am basically Locked out..............

Without the ability to rename the Volume name I can't do anything due to the volume being renamed as characters that I do not have ie: hearts, clubs, spades, diamonds etc..?

Any Suggestions

thanks in advanceThere's no need for double-posting. Stick with your other post and try what GX1_Man suggested there.use charachter map , ♠♣♥♦ , im pretty sure it uses tahoma or ludicia console.. in the install , it may not be possible though , if the label contains one of the charachters you can create only by pasting you will have no luck , ludicia console.. spade is U+2660 , u stands for alt .. hold alt, type 2660 on the num pad Problem has been resolved in the other identical post. Quote from: Diablo416 on April 16, 2007, 12:01:21 AM
use charachter map , ♠♣♥♦ , im pretty sure it uses tahoma or ludicia console.. in the install , it may not be possible though , if the label contains one of the charachters you can create only by pasting you will have no luck , ludicia console.. spade is U+2660 , u stands for alt .. hold alt, type 2660 on the num pad

There would be no logical reason for using these characters for a disk volume name if in fact it would even take them...


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