omg... HD suddenly not recognizable by the computer..... HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[iskim86]

omg I scanned my computer for viruses and got rid of the pe parite_a and hapater (or whatever) worm viruses using TrendMicro's housecall internet virus scanner, and then I reboot, and I get the blue screen while the Windows 2000 splash screen is on....... the blue screen that says "run chkdsk /f and look for any corruptions" etc........... and at the top it says "inaccessible_boot_sector error".

and so since my computer has both WinXP and Win2k on it I get on winXP and I go to windows explorer and look at my hd with Win2k in it..... DOESN'T WORK! it asks me if I want to format the drive because it's not formatted. OMG what did I do wrong? I only scanned for viruses and got rid of them and that's all I did!!!!!! did the stress of the virus scanning destroy my hard drivE?!? omg my whole mp3 library and music video and Family Guy episodes and my digital artworks are all in here....... I can't risk losing them. holy crap.... what should I?? how do I fix this? is my HD completely dead? c is there anyway to reverse the virus scan to its original state? howbout I restore the registry for Win2k?

thanks a lot any help would be appreciated.


UPDATE!!!!!!!!!: I ran "cmd" in run and typed in "d:". this is what I got... "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)."

and here's what I did in CMD after that...

C:\Documents and Settings\Ike>chkdsk /f d:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Secondary.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File record segment 220 is unreadable.
File record segment 221 is unreadable.
File record segment 222 is unreadable.
File record segment 223 is unreadable.
File record segment 3992 is unreadable.
File record segment 3993 is unreadable.
File record segment 3994 is unreadable.
File record segment 3995 is unreadable.
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Deleting index entry $Quota in index $I30 of file 11.
Deleting index entry attrib.exe in index $I30 of file 26.
Deleting index entry AUTOCHK.EXE in index $I30 of file 26.
Deleting index entry AUTOCONV.EXE in index $I30 of file 26.
Deleting index entry audiocdc.hlp in index $I30 of file 45.
Deleting index entry HMMAPI.DLL in index $I30 of file 985.
Deleting index entry SE7330~1 in index $I30 of file 33182.
Deleting index entry search[89] in index $I30 of file 33182.
Deleting index entry search[96].htm in index $I30 of file 53664.
Deleting index entry SEFABA~1.HTM in index $I30 of file 53664.
Index verification completed.
Creating quota file.
Inserting an index entry into index $I30 of file 11.
Creating index $O for file 17.
Creating index $Q for file 17.
Inserting default quota record into index $Q in file 17.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Adding 8 bad clusters to the Bad Clusters File.
Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) DATA attribute.
Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

120045680 KB total disk space.
55456464 KB in 98502 files.
34016 KB in 2991 indexes.
32 KB in bad sectors.
171388 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
64383780 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
30011420 total allocation units on disk.
16095945 allocation units available on disk.

C:\Documents and Settings\Ike>

 

[Razorblade]

Try restoring the files with the viruses - I know it sounds stupid - they should be in Trend's quarantine... then save all those things elsewhere, and re-run the av-scan and if the situation repeats, feel free to format the drive. This is the only thing I can think of.

No, wait, try booting it with a boot disk, or cd...

Good Luck...

 

[AMCRambler]

So does it boot now thta you ran cmd? I don't know what cmd is supposed to do. If the boot sector is fvcked you can try booting into dos and running fdisk /mbr. I've had problems where this has saved my butt when a boot sector is corrupted. However this is your last resort! Other times I've tried using this and it's wiped out the partition table on the drive completely! So if you can backup what's there before trying it.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
So does it boot now thta you ran cmd? I don't know what cmd is supposed to do. If the boot sector is fvcked you can try booting into dos and running fdisk /mbr. I've had problems where this has saved my butt when a boot sector is corrupted. However this is your last resort! Other times I've tried using this and it's wiped out the partition table on the drive completely! So if you can backup what's there before trying it.

cmd is the Windows XP commandline interface.

 

[ForsakenMaster]

The virus damaged your registry all you can do is attempt to save your files and reload everything.

Also try backing up all your files and attempt system restore.

 

[iskim86]

you guys are all n00000000000000000000bs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

just joking.

I ran chkdsk /f d: in cmd in WinXP, fixed everything.

w00t!