thebatpeople
Technical User
I was given a hard drive(Western Digital 8.4GB) that is full of viruses and spyware. I was going to clear the drive and install it in a computer for my kids. I unplugged the hard drive in my computer(CTX, Pegasus e5tx-at motherboard, 32M RAM, Maxtor 4GB HDD, Win98SE), plugged the 8.4GB in and booted from a Win98 start up disk. It came up complaining of a hard drive failure. I decided it wasn't worth the headache, pulled that drive and plugged in a drive(Western Digital 540.8MB) that worked when I pulled it a few years ago. Got the same error. I thought perhaps it quit working from non-use. Unplugged it and plugged the original drive back in and was sad to see the same error even though the BIOS shows the proper information for the drive. I've tried swapping cables and connections between IDE1 and IDE2. Norton rescue disk[last updated in 2002(slacker)] claimed I had a bad FAT but gave an error of not being able to write to the drive.
Does anyone know what the heck is going on?
Is the virus transferring to other drives via the memory?
How can I recover the data and the use of the Maxtor?
How can I recover the use of the 2 Western Digitals?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Tim
Does anyone know what the heck is going on?
Is the virus transferring to other drives via the memory?
How can I recover the data and the use of the Maxtor?
How can I recover the use of the 2 Western Digitals?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Tim