Doug Murphy
dw-murphy at cox.net
Tue Apr 24 21:01:59 CDT 2012
It could be a rootkit, or a hardware problem. Before spending a lot of time on rebuilding on that drive I'd check it. According to Steve Gibson, http://www.grc.com/intro.htm, it isn't unusual for drives to start losing sectors. I am far from a hardware expert by any means, but drives are cheap enough so why rebuild on one that might have problems. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darryl Collins Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:28 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] Strange happenings (Rather OT, but Advice is appreciated) (xposted with Excel-L) Wow... I have a trusty HP desktop, which has worked flawlessly for about 4 years now out of the box. This machine is on for most of the day and night, most days and nights. It is basically the family PC in the lounge room. Last night I was at home listening to music on iTunes thru the headphones when I noticed some of the tracks in the list started to flag themselves as unavailable - What the??? Went to the desktop so I could check the folder and stacks of Icons are now missing, - there were there not 10 mins ago. I check the folders - stacks of files were missing. I immediately shut down the whole system, rebooted and the icons and files were still missing. Ran a system restore which got back the programs and their icons, but gobs of data had been deleted. Luckily I have pretty good backups of my data, and I have also found some software that seems to be able to restore most (if not all of the) deleted data from the existing drive. My question is WTF happened. It was almost like one of those virus's from the mid 90's that kids used to write - You know "Delete all jpgs and mp3". Actually it was wiping a whole stack of stuff. I am pretty tempted to wipe the drive and reinstall from scratch. First I will see if I can recover the system. It is weird. Bookmarks from the brower, shortcut buttons etc were also all wiped. Never seen anything like it... Anyone got any suggestions? Cheers Darryl. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com