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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: MDavid on October 20, 2005, 07:18:12 PM

Title: external Harddrive
Post by: MDavid on October 20, 2005, 07:18:12 PM

I have a 250 gb external harddrive
my problem is that i cant acess my harddrive anymore meaning i cant acess my music or any documents that's in there.
The last thing i can remeber is Having a file renames to exe by mistake my brother because it was some documents that i had from other pc so its was compressed to a rar file. and i try to change it to .rar and my avg gave me a alart and i click continue by accident.
Is there a way i can recover my files? :(

Title: Re: external Harddrive
Post by: GX1_Man on October 20, 2005, 07:20:49 PM

Did it delete it thinking it was virus infested when you clicked OK? Are other files still on there, or you can't access it at all? Can you try it on another machine?

Title: Re: external Harddrive
Post by: MDavid on October 20, 2005, 07:23:44 PM

It doesnt even open the drive
i try it on other pc and it still wouldnt open

Title: Re: external Harddrive
Post by: GX1_Man on October 20, 2005, 07:28:19 PM

Does this link apply?

http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=3;action=display;num=1129826697;start=0#0

Title: Re: external Harddrive
Post by: Fed on October 20, 2005, 10:56:51 PM

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The last thing i can remeber is Having a file renames to exe by mistake my brother because it was some documents that i had from other pc so its was compressed to a rar file. and i try to change it to .rar and my avg gave me a alart and i click continue by accident.  

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