Help with hard drive

[nfpgasmask]

I just recovered a bunch of pix off a HD for a friend that got the Burito virus. That think was nasty! It even had it’s own desktop theme.

Does the burito virus give you gas too?

Bart

[don moore]

after loosing alot of stuff over the years ..i now have a backup usb hd.. for all my pics....just wish i had it when when i lost all my wedding pics...(she still reminds me of that every now and then)..good luck

[etlsport]

after loosing alot of stuff over the years ..i now have a backup usb hd.. for all my pics....just wish i had it when when i lost all my wedding pics...(she still reminds me of that every now and then)..good luck

at least you had them for a while.. my buddy just recently got engaged.. took tons of photos since he proposed on a beach at sunset... he lost the SD card somewhere on the beach!

but yea.. I keep like 4 thumb drives full of different stuff like that.. ive got thumb drives holding my photos, tax info, important school stuff etc.. plus i copy everything on my laptop to my desktop too

[tom4bren]

"..i now have a backup usb hd.."

That's what this drive was for. When the PC crashed, it took the internal & external with it.

IT buddy says he's stumped - he handed it over to some techno-geeks to have a try.

BTW, I copied all of my pix that didn't get lost to a DVD last nite. I learn - painfully I learn.

Thanks for all your help guys. I'll keep you posted.

[nfpgasmask]

When the PC crashed, it took the internal & external with it.

THAT is wierd. Did you have a massive power surge or something that could have blown the power on the external and somehow fry the internal? I have never heard of this happening. Your external drive has its own power supply, correct? Do you have any LEDs on it that light up or anything? It almost sounds like the external drive is not getting any juice, and thus, not spinning up, which would cause Windows to see nothing...

I would say you need to open the shell of the external, find out if it is IDE or SATA, and then get another enclosure that supports the capacity of the drive, hook it up and see what happens. What make/model/size is the external?

Bart

[tom4bren]

The drive lights, spins & chunks. Haven't talked to the Tech again. My original assumption is that I got hit by a virus. I haven't checked the internal drive (I saved it since it was only a year old), it may still work but I only used it for programs & not data. I just want my pix back. The drive is a write off as far as I'm concerned - I'd never trust it again.

[nfpgasmask]

The drive lights, spins & chunks. Haven't talked to the Tech again. My original assumption is that I got hit by a virus. I haven't checked the internal drive (I saved it since it was only a year old), it may still work but I only used it for programs & not data. I just want my pix back. The drive is a write off as far as I'm concerned - I'd never trust it again.

You know, I have seen viruses do a lot of things, but to this day, with 14+ years of IT experience behind me, I have never encountered a virus capable of damaging hardware.

Bart