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Answer» So, After I got a virus on my laptop, I managed to back up all my files onto an external hard drive. Now, I can't find my windows CD, so that sucks. However, I did format it, so all the data is gone. But the problem I'm having is, the Western Digital USB drive I backed up all my data on isn't being recognized by any computers anymore. It was fine just an hour ago, now it isn't working. I hope I didn't just lose all of my data that I spent hours trying to back up. A virus will not fry a laptop hard drive...or any other hard drive... Yeah, that's what I thought. It doesn't make sense to me either. All of my computers except the Vista one just failed a hard drive self-test though. Sooo... Yeah, me in all of my stupidity apparently got every computer infected. Think it's a BIOS virus that's screwing with my hard drive or something? I mean really, what virus would survive a DBAN wipe? Because, what it seems to be doing is writing random garbage in the MFT over and over until the sectors turn up as "bad." Then, the computer that I don't turn off not only had bad sectors at the BEGINNING, but throughout the drive in random spots. EDIT: Let me rephrase that; After wiping the drive with DBAN, I partitioned the drive so that I could install on an area that was not red in the HD Test scan. I installed a fresh windows copy from the original CD. Almost immediately, it resumed grinding the drive again.This virus is making a fool out of me. I don't know what it is, where it is, or how to get rid of it. None of my anti-virus programs are finding it, and it automatically deletes HijackThis and other software (The files are "corrupt.") It boots itself in safe mode SOMEHOW (I thought that couldn't happen) and reinstalls from a clean copy of windows. I'm like, ya know, about to scream here. I've never SEEN anything do this before. Oh, and by the way, this was originally in Hardware because I thought I removed the virus by formatting the drive. Clearly, I was incorrect...A few things to consider: A virus cannot destroy hardware... There are no BIOS virii that i know of... If a drive is formatted any infection should be gone... That being said VISIT our Virus and Spyware section and follow the guide at the top of the page for posting your logs...Alright, I'll bring this back over to Spyware/antivirus again. *CENSORED*, i thought I had it. At this stage, it sounds to me like your best option is buy a new hard drive. |
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