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back up and or try to save my art and family photos ......
I cant even word this right I"m frazzled basically hacker ****ed my computer I have to take it in and have it ... not a system restore but more detailed ...like restore it to how it was when I bought it BUT I"m told I will lose my photos an my music and my art stuff ...I am loading stuff onto myspace maybe facebook any where I can stick em to find later but there is so many photos to try to save , it wont let me save them to disc , it says there is not enough room on the disc ...argh...I'm muddling through ...I need a cookie break or a movie or sleeeeep , any suggestions or help would be much appreciated... but I dont know if I will be able to get an internet connection to check this for much longer..... ARGH!!!!!!......... 
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You have to reformat your hard drive? Quick... call all computer nerds... you're screwed!
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ive redone mine three times back to store bought
i loose programs like trillian or my viruse programs but havent lost any music, picture or video files yet |
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you COULD also do this-
take out the current hard drive to your computer. have a computer tech or a friend who's versed with computers do this if need be. then go out to an electronics store and get another hard drive. install the just-purchased hard drive into your computer and make sure all your anti-virus/anti-spyware/firewall programs areinstalled onto it. then reinstall your old hard drive, being careful to make sure that it's set to be a slave drive. from there, you can check the affected disk for stuff like viruses, trojans, and other forms of spy/malware. once you're absolutely sure the infected files have been cleaned out, then you can go about looking for your pics and stuff. you can also get and install a freeware recovery program called PC Inspector File Recovery, which will search your drive for missing pics and other files, even in the event of a format or physical drive error. |
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you COULD also do this- take out the current hard drive to your computer. have a computer tech or a friend who's versed with computers do this if need be. then go out to an electronics store and get another hard drive. install the just-purchased hard drive into your computer and make sure all your anti-virus/anti-spyware/firewall programs areinstalled onto it. then reinstall your old hard drive, being careful to make sure that it's set to be a slave drive. from there, you can check the affected disk for stuff like viruses, trojans, and other forms of spy/malware. once you're absolutely sure the infected files have been cleaned out, then you can go about looking for your pics and stuff. you can also get and install a freeware recovery program called PC Inspector File Recovery, which will search your drive for missing pics and other files, even in the event of a format or physical drive error. I like this answer. It has the added bonus of giving you a spare hard drive to keep the data on in case this happens again. Another option is buy one of the external hard drives they have now. about 500 gigs should have plenty of space to copy your hard drive to before you have it "restored" |
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back up and or try to save my art and family photos ...... I cant even word this right I"m frazzled basically hacker ****ed my computer I have to take it in and have it ... not a system restore but more detailed ...like restore it to how it was when I bought it BUT I"m told I will lose my photos an my music and my art stuff ...I am loading stuff onto myspace maybe facebook any where I can stick em to find later but there is so many photos to try to save , it wont let me save them to disc , it says there is not enough room on the disc ...argh...I'm muddling through ...I need a cookie break or a movie or sleeeeep , any suggestions or help would be much appreciated... but I dont know if I will be able to get an internet connection to check this for much longer..... ARGH!!!!!!.........
When you restore XP all your documents reamin. |
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thanks , I'm working on it
external hard drive good idea my son lent me a flash drive and it held 2 and a half folders , theres still lots of folders though .......I'm not a million air though if this is to expensive I cant do it ... its not a system restore that it needs I know the files will remain after system restore the HP tech support lady said to take it in for something bigger then a restore an it sets it back to when I bought it but she said my art photos music an some of my programs WILL be lost so I should back them up... symatec scan showed no viruses or 'known"threats |
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If you had a separate reinstall disk for XP you could just install over and it would overwrite the files that are causing the problem . . . probably.
What it sounds like is that your system has a restore partition that will restore it to _exactly_ as it was when you got it. I looked at best buy.com and a 500G hd can be had for $120. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8908621&type=product&id=1216424110187 It's probably not a virus, from the sound of it. Missing files can cause havoc and be invisible to those types of scans. |
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Edited by
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Fri 08/29/08 07:36 PM
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Double post. Sorry
  
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you COULD also do this- take out the current hard drive to your computer. have a computer tech or a friend who's versed with computers do this if need be. then go out to an electronics store and get another hard drive. install the just-purchased hard drive into your computer and make sure all your anti-virus/anti-spyware/firewall programs areinstalled onto it. then reinstall your old hard drive, being careful to make sure that it's set to be a slave drive. from there, you can check the affected disk for stuff like viruses, trojans, and other forms of spy/malware. once you're absolutely sure the infected files have been cleaned out, then you can go about looking for your pics and stuff. you can also get and install a freeware recovery program called PC Inspector File Recovery, which will search your drive for missing pics and other files, even in the event of a format or physical drive error. I like this answer. It has the added bonus of giving you a spare hard drive to keep the data on in case this happens again. Another option is buy one of the external hard drives they have now. about 500 gigs should have plenty of space to copy your hard drive to before you have it "restored" OR you can go to that same electronics store and see if they sell something called an "external hard drive kit", which is a box with connections to hook your hard drive to. it'll in essence turn your internal hard drive into an external one, but with the added benefit of costing MUCH less. |
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Also true, I just wasn't sure of the technical expertise of the user involved and so I suggested what I would for my mother or sister (both of whom are intelligent, but not computer savvy).
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truth be told, practically anything you do to treat a computer problem that either requires re-installation of software or manipulation of hardware would be considered a little "over" what a typical computer user might have to deal with.
that's why it always helps to have someone who is computer savvy around, so that they can take over when stuff gets to stinky. |
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in the future have a external drive to back up to soo you don't lose your stuff or buy an apple :d
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