hdd crash 1

[esromneb]

Ok, just so we can skip over the lame stuff, I know lots about computers. Moving on...Today I was running Norton and it crashed my computer about half way thru. I rebooted and it said "Bad system or boot disk.." or whatever, the thing it says when you leave in a floppy, only the error was about my harddrive. So I put in the configuration builder (it's a toshiba laptop) and booted into dos. I did a dir on c: and got *nothing*. I ran scandisk from there and it said it found 5 gigs (all my stuff) of bad files or dir's that it wants to put into the file001.chk thing. How do I get my stuff back. It's all there, but I think norton had it all open or something and all the headers are bad, or something. Could you please help me? thanks so much.
-ben

 

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Good luck, Ben. About two weeks ago, I had a very similar experience. My disk was divided into 14 partitions (C through P). In a matter of seconds, M through P were gone, and nearly all the files had disappeared from the remaining partitions. I spent 2 days and 1 night (ALL night) trying to revive SOMETHING--and I know lots about computers, too. Finally, I had to fdisk and reformat. I lost everything.

The only conclusion was that some kind of virus had slipped through my defenses, even though I ran both Norton and AVG--before absolutely everything slipped away--and they found nothing.

I wish I were able to tell you how I saved my HD. We'd both be much happier right now.
Butch

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