Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: Idiot123 on April 14, 2007, 08:57:43 PM
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few years ago when Kazaa first came out I was playing a game with a buddy till 4am & at the time didn't know anything about port forwarding so I just opend my pc up with DMZ. Since I played till I couldn't see straight went straight to be leaving my machine wide open.
Next morning forgot all about DMZ being open & went right to Kaza & Downloaded an mp3 file. Periodically after downloading files & would check to see if file was complete. This time I looked down & the file name was BonJovi.Mp3.VBS
Upon further investigation I found that all of my Mp3 & .Jpg files were named as follows: .Mp3.vbs & .jpg.vbs right then & there I knew I was slammed with a virus. Since I built the PC I figured I would just chalk it up as a loss & reformat the drive to wipe it clean & do a complete fresh install of the os.
I got to the part where it asks you to name the Volume in FDISK but then I saw that the name of the Volume was in characters much like the ones you see on Playing cards.
They Looked like Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs & spades. To this day I still have the hard drive but no Idea how to clean it: have tried using it as a Master & also as a slave but I cannot find an application to rename the files in DOS sinceI do not have the characters.
I know the Hard Drive was Manufactures in 2003 & made by samsung & spinpoint series model# SP800H I mostlikely at the time was using Win98se
All I want to do is be able to format the hard drive so I can re-use it again but seems like w/o the heart, diamaond, shaped characters in dos I cannot rename to Volume so I can then delete the existing Partition & Create new one to Format & do a complete re-install of a new OS.
thanks in advance~
yours truely-
Idiot123
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Do you have a Win2000 or XP CD? Use that and delete all the partitions and then format it. You do not need to go through FDISK.
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Thanks for the tip, Tried last night after I saw your post & this is the error message I got while trying to install Windows XP PRo:
"The File ql10wnt.sys is corrupted" SO I googled it & was trying to run Fdsik again.
when I did it I got another message saying no Fixed Disks present so I tried option #2 which was to go to the manufacturer (Samsung) & download the original tools that came with the Hard Drive to Floppy. Upon running those tools I got the application to run for about 2 seconds then it stopped & so I tried basic dos tools like chdsk, scandisk, & every other tool I could use in the help section of DOS.
tried XP PRo installation again & now it will not even find anything. The newest error message I get is "Remove All Media" & press enter to restart.
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Read and follow directions precisely.
http://www.computerhope.com/rdebug.htm#4
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2k Dummy you da man!
thank you so much, it is hard to describe the problem when you don't know what you're doing, hence the name Id10t123 :)