Just wondering if anyone has come across a case where a virus
has wiped out a Slave Disk - or probably better described as
a virus preventing access to a slave disk?
The symptoms:
Attached images show: 'My computer', The slave disk is
labelled as D: It doesn't show memory capacity.
When you right click and attempt to view contents, a message
appears stating that the disk is not formatted.
When I view in 'Disk Management' the slave disk appears as
healthy.
However, I can't access the contents.
The computer:
This is an old computer which I run in isolation (i.e not
connected to internet) to test downloaded applications.
There is no anti-virus software installed.
It is set up with a primary system disk, and a slave disk.
On the slave disk I just store programs.
Doubts about Virus or some other problems.
I was in the middle of testing my friends computer with
known corrupted disk. When I removed the IDE cable from
my own system to install my friends disk as a slave,
the IDE cable snapped off. (Not surprising really, as I've
done this often - and the cable was obviously weakened).
Not really thinking I took the IDE cable off my friends
system, and put on my own.
My friends system disk, installed as slave gave the same
symptoms as above. Later I thought 'faulty IDE cable', and changed
it to another one, whereupon I later did manage to access
my friends disk as slave, all be it with a lot of
disk errors. I've since, reformatted that disk, and can
access it okay as a slave.
My own slave is still faulty as described above, so I'm wondering,
if fault is due to a virus OR it's been damaged in some way due
to a suspected faulty IDE cable. My theory on the virus, is
that I'd just installed a program prior to all this fiasco.
I'm lucky, as none of the data stored on my slave
disk is valuable, I'm confident that 99% is backed up elsewhere.
So the option exists to format it again, but thought just
before I do, to investigate methods to try and recover data
or try to get it working again.. and suggestions greatly
appreciated.
has wiped out a Slave Disk - or probably better described as
a virus preventing access to a slave disk?
The symptoms:
Attached images show: 'My computer', The slave disk is
labelled as D: It doesn't show memory capacity.
When you right click and attempt to view contents, a message
appears stating that the disk is not formatted.
When I view in 'Disk Management' the slave disk appears as
healthy.
However, I can't access the contents.
The computer:
This is an old computer which I run in isolation (i.e not
connected to internet) to test downloaded applications.
There is no anti-virus software installed.
It is set up with a primary system disk, and a slave disk.
On the slave disk I just store programs.
Doubts about Virus or some other problems.
I was in the middle of testing my friends computer with
known corrupted disk. When I removed the IDE cable from
my own system to install my friends disk as a slave,
the IDE cable snapped off. (Not surprising really, as I've
done this often - and the cable was obviously weakened).
Not really thinking I took the IDE cable off my friends
system, and put on my own.
My friends system disk, installed as slave gave the same
symptoms as above. Later I thought 'faulty IDE cable', and changed
it to another one, whereupon I later did manage to access
my friends disk as slave, all be it with a lot of
disk errors. I've since, reformatted that disk, and can
access it okay as a slave.
My own slave is still faulty as described above, so I'm wondering,
if fault is due to a virus OR it's been damaged in some way due
to a suspected faulty IDE cable. My theory on the virus, is
that I'd just installed a program prior to all this fiasco.
I'm lucky, as none of the data stored on my slave
disk is valuable, I'm confident that 99% is backed up elsewhere.
So the option exists to format it again, but thought just
before I do, to investigate methods to try and recover data
or try to get it working again.. and suggestions greatly
appreciated.
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