Ok I will try to add as much info on this as I can.
So I downloaded 'Comodo'
http://www.comodo.com/products/comodo-products.phpInstalled and ran the programme, at first I thought I was just encrypting my J: drive (external) but it seems it had a small effect on my C: internal (just an extra password on boot which I have disabled.
Half way through the encryption it failed and created a Bsod. Then restarted and everything seemed ok. But unfortunately my external drive was unusable without a format. So tried to gain access with no joy and ended up formatting it. That's when all the issues started. I downloaded 'recuva'
http://www.filehippo.com/download_re...652d768f86289/ after a recommendation and as it's from Piriform (CCleaner) thought things would be fine. So I tried at first to recover the external, on a quick scan it found nothing but not surprising as I formatted. So I tried 'deep scan' which says it can recover formatted data. But everytime I tried it would Bsod again??
So I decided to recover data from the internal on to the external as all my stuff I lost (movies, photo's etc) was originally from there. This as you can imagine brought up a LOT of stuff.. over 80,000 files. So I sifted through all this stuff and managed to recover some bit's and bobs but no where near what I lost. But anyway I moved all the stuff I wanted onto my internal drive and then re-formatted the external to save me having to manually delete all that data.
Problem is now if I plug in the external and try to do anything other than look at the screen it will crash Win Exp and I have to restart Win Exp (not the end of the world). I tried multiple ways to access the drive (add files) and everytime it will crash.
This presents me with somewhat of a dilemma as I need to backup to that drive from the internal so I can attempt a re-install of Windows Vista32. Reasons being that Windows has become quite unstable on start up and also Comodo will not allow me to uninstall it as it says one or more of my drives is still encrypted even though they all show up in the menu as not encrypted.
This has turned into a nightmare and would really appreciate some help.
As always thanks in advance for your input and hopefully we can get this resolved.
EDIT: Windows Vista32 SP2 Premium Home, Ext HDD 320gb SATA within an enclosure (USB).
Well just as an update.. I can now no longer open comodo as it stops responding. And it cannot be removed with add/remove as it still comes back with drive encrypted.
Really at the end of my tether with this.
Ok downloaded Revo and took things one step at a time. Tried doing a normal uninstall but as you probably will already know it attempts to use the in-bedded uninstaller and this came back with the usual... Decrypt first. So I tried a forced uninstall (moderate) which brought up files so I removed them but this was not enough as Comodo files were still present after a restart.
I then tried a forced uninstall (advanced) which brought up all the registry keys etc. So after removing everything I tried to run Comodo (just to check) the system could not find it.. good. Then restarted and tried to utilize my drives (move programs around etc. Windows Explorer continued to hang whilst moving files from the internal to the external drive.
I managed to move two large files over for backup.. namely my website stuff, Dangerbot and mIRC but then as I tried to move Gmod (Garrys Mod, game) over everything hung and when Win Exp tried to restart it just hung there. (about my 5th full restart of the laptop).
I then tried to reinstall Comodo from it's current state but only the repair option was there, leading me to believe that elements still exist that cannot be removed unless you uninstall with Comodo.
So I repaired to see if anything had changed... back to square one. Comodo just hangs when I try to start it...
Really at a loss here guys. Any help appreciated.. still.
I'm copying these responses from another site... any help appreciated.
