What do u do when ur dvd-r gets crazy???

[DarkZeratul]

I've recently found an old CD box with many CDs full of back-up data, fotos and games I purchase from a friend almost 7 years or so. And yeah, there is some good MP3 music in this case (oh, what a nice years to download muze!). The thing is I want to see all this info this afternoon, but then came my neighbor, this little sucker, with a 8GB pen drive and a video on it... He can´t see that video, because their PC was crammed with trojans. I diligently copy its video to my desktop, formatted his p drive, restored the video to the p drive, deleted the video from my desktop and, finally, I run the video from his p drive only for my neighbor could see a bunch of his gal-friends swinging in little thongs on the beach south of my town...

I actually am devastated, and I'm writing this from a Cyber Cafe, because after that, It was IMPOSSIBLE to me to read ANY CD or DVD when, in fact, early in the morning I could do this thing without a problem... I disconnect my PC from the internet after 2 trys of updating the McAfee AVirus Software. Apparently, my antivirus failed to detect some virus; furthermore, this software gives a strange error code and the real-time protection was shutted and I can't reverse this situation. There is not more 'viric' behavior from my PC, but, until now, it refuses to read ANY CD - DVD.

Please, any suggestion will be very appreciated...

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[amdhunter]

Did the drive letters just disappear? Or are you getting an error when you click on the drive?

 

[0roo0roo]

my mind shuts off as i read your post.

 

[Quiksilver]

<--- Computer Help is that way.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: Quiksilver
<--- Computer Help is that way.

---> Mega shark is that way.

 

[So]

Literacy is that way.
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[n0cmonkey]

Format & Reinstall.

 

[DarkZeratul]

I can´t remember when was the last time I leave a post on Anandtech... Only thing can I tell is it was very useful. Anyway folks thanks 4 your opinions

 

[gsellis]

Autoplay installed one of those trojans for you. AV scanners and removal is your next step.

 

[DarkZeratul]

Hey gsellis, thank you VERY MUCH... In my country we use to say: "At least you take the hat from the drowning man..." That is because, after two trys with the "System Recovery Console" of XP, I finally can READ and WRITE on DVD FORMAT; yeah, and nothing yet on CD FORMAT But here goes your suggestion. Hence I'm gonna make a full scan with the portable version of DR. Web; even if it probably can't clean my system up, I'm thinking it at least will detect the [removed by Moderator] malware, don't it?


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