Today I was dumb enough to download a virus on to my PC. It completely wiped all but the most basic files and programs. I formatted the drive and reinstalled everything, thinking my external hard drive would be unharmed. It turns out it isn't unharmed, and all of my files on there have also disappeared, including some essays I had ready to hand in : (.
There is something peculiar though. When I plug in my external drive and go to "My Computer", the disk capacity preview still indicates that there are files left on there. This led me to believe that there must be a way to get them back.
My question is this - I've never used something like Recuva before, and I have no computer whizz friends. How would I go about recovering the files which "seem" to have been deleted on the external drive?
I've managed to fix this problem now. I had a little look around, and found that the files on the external were simply hidden. ha! all I had to do was un-hide them!
Still, contracting a virus hasn't been a total mess. It's a good excuse to join this community. Maybe I can learn a few things - loving Piriform products!
Glad to hear you found your hidden files hiirscotty.
Now about the virus, I know you formatted etc but you never know. Go here and follow the simple steps, then post the logs in the Spyware hell area of the forum and our spyware mod will check things for you.