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Thread ID: 93523	2008-09-21 03:12:00	Restore Backup	kfoffice (9242)	Press F1

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706693	2008-09-21 03:12:00	Hi, This forum has been a life-safer for me and really appreciate the help I received in the past so here I am again . After many weeks of problems with corrupted and viruses I eventually had enough and reloaded Windows XP Pro fresh last night in another partition of my 1Terabyte hard drive . Reloading Windows XP Pro plus all software prgrams, re-configured them, downloaded updates, etc took just over five hours . I have an AMD Phenom 9550 Quad-core 2 . 2GHz with 4GB RAM, 2 hard drives - 1terabyte and 500GB . When I very first bought the 1Terabyte I ghosted Windows XP Pro and all software from my old 80GB hard drive into one of the partitions on my 1terabyte drive . That went well but I wish now I loaded Windows XP Pro fresh on the 1terabyte drive right from the word go . I originally partitioned my 1Terabyte drive into 4 partitions C (80GB where I ghosted the XP Pro from old 80GB drive), D (Spare), E (For Kids), F (Backup) . I loaded Windows XP Pro fresh last night into D, all my software programs including Avast with its up-to-date updates . I also did a backup of everything (whole computer) into F drive, my backup drive . Now I believe the C: drive was infected badly by some viruses and so the backup is therefore infected . Question 1: Am I able to restore my backup to a different partition / different location? Question 2: If I am able to restore backup to another partition or location, how can I make sure I don't get all the "infected" / corrupted backup ruin my freshly loaded Windows last night? I have 72GB of data in the C: drive and would really appreciate it if I can save most of them if I can, without the viruses . Thanks .	kfoffice (9242)
706694	2008-09-21 03:46:00	What program did you use to created the backup? You mention "ghosted", so if you do have Ghost I believe it allows you to explore your backup images and copy across selected files, rather than restore the entire image. If you are able to just move your selected files, eg My Documents, music etc, then make sure you scan them with your antivirus program. It wouldn't hurt to extract them to a temp location/partition, scan and then move them to where you really want them. Don't extract any file/folder you suspect is infected.	Jen (38)
706695	2008-09-21 03:57:00	I ran backup from from C: drive (infected one) three days ago using Windows XP Pro because I was thinking seriously then to start from fresh . However when I got home yesterday afternoon, the computer was off and none of the children knew exactly what happenned when they were using it except the horrible error message kept coming up right at the start: "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device" Initially I thought I might just run chkdsk /r, and other commands from Windows Recover Console but after twenty minutes I got more frustrated with the jolly error message kept coming on that I decided then it's time to re-load windows afresh into another partition . Unfortunately I lended my Ghost to someone and I can't remember who and so I don't have it any more . Then I loaded Windows XP Pro into another (different) partition	kfoffice (9242)
706696	2008-09-21 04:04:00	I'm panicing as my wife had all her huge assignments on the computer yesterday before it went down and I can't seem to locate any of them yet in C drive (from the freshly loaded windows) Since I haven't formatted or wiped any data from C drive (infected drive) is there anyway I can retrieve my wife's files? She has five big assignment on C drive that are due tomorrow.	kfoffice (9242)
706697	2008-09-21 04:20:00	If you boot your computer on a CD of Puppy Linux, Ubuntu, or Noppix you will be able to access all your files on all partitions of your hard drive. i suggest you save the files to a USB Thumb drive and scan them before using them. As for the error. Boot on your XP CD and do a repair. Save those files first.	mzee (3324)
706698	2008-09-21 06:44:00	No good so far. Using the frewshly loaded windows XP Pro I restarted the computer pressed F8 and select the Windows XP Pro on C: drive and the error message came up: Windows couldn't load because the following file is either corrupted or missing.....\windows\system32\cnofig\system So I used the XP Pro CD to restore my computer to an earlier date but that didn't work either: cd"C:\System Volume Information" then cd _resto~1 but (applying dir)couldn't see any file or subfolder with RPxxx meaning that my System Restore must have been turned off (yet I'm sure it was on,can viruses turn system restore off?) So I tried repairing it: cd C:\Windows\Repair and copy System C;|Windows\System32\Config\System and reboot the machine (without the XP Pro CD this time) and still couldn't boot into my original C drive. I also the iso folder you suggested (Linux) copied it to CD, rebooted the computer with it but it just hang after two lines (I forgot now what it says), so I'm kind of stuck. Just as well I loaded windows into another partition. Anything else I should try?	kfoffice (9242)
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