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Thats my issue with windows 7, I can't place stuff in folders where I want without changing the name and whatnot, imo its stupid. I'll try my best to describe what happened. My friends dad is a computer tech guy and I showed him the problem and the fact it would happen in safe mode he said the virus basically owned my laptop. so he attached a external hard drive that had a os on it and went it to see if he could save data and he got most of it. I keep all my school finances, grades, etc on my seagate so I wasn't worried about that. He also tried stuff on dvd-r, I don't know what was on them sorry, and that didn't work so in the end he hooked up a external hard drive and saved the main data. Then went and installed 7 and the drivers that run it. And up to this point I want to install XP but I think my computer is to new or the driver support is not there. All I can tell you is that this virus is a bitch, and thanks for the help guys.
Certain viruses are very aggressive, thats why I recommend that you keep the backup copy of your files encrypted (so they can not be edited by anyone/anything, accessed/seen, retrieved, etc...).
It can be a challenge to make new hardware work 100% on XP, an easy way to tell is to install a virtual OS first (VMWare Client) and go to the mfgers's website to check out what drivers are actually available.
A lot of times you can substitute like driver files even though its not designed for that particular model of hardware. Find an older model (if one exists) with similar hardware; many drivers will apply to a range of hardware since manufacturers repetitively use the same core chipsets but change the I/O end of things for different features.
Many times if you cant find the drivers on HP site you can find them by going to the manufacturers site directly - Example: A dell computer using a ASUS motherboard with an intel chipset. You can get drivers from both intel and ASUS as well.
Realtek also makes a lot of your audio, network, and lower end graphics chipsets.
The only thing HP about your HP pc is the logo stamped on the case.
Gotcha. Yeah, so if he removed the drive and hooked it up to another computer (whether via the IDE/sATA cable, or an external USB device) and that computer he plugged it into was running in Safe mode and the files were still corrupt, then yeah the files were toast. Sounds like that horrible virus got ya, it happens, Ive seen it before too. Make sure you are behind a router that has a firewall built in like a Cisco/Linksys to protect you from malicious attacks... aka PopTarts
Unix/Linux is IMO the best small business/consumer Router/Firewall/Proxy, its capability far exceeds anything offered below $5,000.00, has no subscription fees, and can be used to turn any old desktop sitting around into such devices for free.
Old Pentium 4 systems are PERFECT for making Unix/Linux based routers & network service devices out of.
3 GHz Router with Gigabit ethernet anyone? Big time throughput here...