Harddrive curruption, virus?

[pukka7]

So to start off I'm haveing huge problems with my computer for the moment.
This Tuseday I made the choice to format my OS-drive and reinstall since I had huge problems with the audio and graphic drivers that needed to be reinstalled each time I booted, secondly it was running slow and had loads of problem with the memory.

So I started off by copying all my pics and stuff from C: to L: for backup. I had them stored in "My Documents" since I've never had the time to move them and I started to gather things there three years ago.

After the aprox.40gb of pictures, documents etc was copied I started with the formation of C: and reinstalling windows X P.
Everything went fine untill I got into windows OS and was going to copy all the files backuped.
The whole folder that all the backup was in was currupted and could not be read. So ran a disc check to try to fix it and that resulted in the deletion of aprox.75gb on that drive wich got me really pissed of since I had loads of things there too.

After that I tried to recover the lost files with Active UNDELETE. worked kind of well since I got some of the files back, not close to all though and all mixed togheter in one folder..

After that, as sad as I was, I wanted to play some wow so I put in the wow DVD and installed Direct X. After that I opend P: to go to the wow folder. And what do I get? the games folder where I have all my games is currupted too, and the hell that I want to lose almost all stuff on that drive too.

So now I'm here with this worthless fekkin computer that I for the moment totaly hate.

Anyone who has got any tips on how to fix this damn problem with the drives? I believe that there's is maybe a virus that is causing this so I'm currently trying to track down all possible viruses using the software antiviruses that I can get hold of.

*The computer for the moment is acting slow and when moving/resiziing windows it "laggs" really much.

All IDE 3.5" no raid:
? 120gb 7200rpm 2mb cache (Came with the computer so I'm only assuming everthing except the size.)
Western Digital Caviar 120Gb 7200rpm 8Mb cache
Seagate Barracuda 250Gb 7200rpm 8Mb cache

Could be the otherway around with the Western being the 240Gb and the Seagate being the 120Gb.

Drives Partitioned:
? Drive:
C:~40gb
F:~75gb
R:~4gb

Maxtor:
M: ~120gb

Seagate:
P: ~50gb
L: ~190gb

*the sizes are not near to exact since I don't really check them often and by that, don't remeber them well.

thanks

 

[Asus]

Sometimes files get corrupt and it can mess up everything in that folder. I had a folder on my desktop that got corrupt and Explorer would give me an error everytime I opened it. I tried moving it to another drive and the problem went with the folder. Luckly it wasn't stuff I needed (old desktop icons) so I deleted it and no more problems.

Also sometimes harddrives can get a bad sector and you have to do a low lvl format. Before formating you should use the manufactures disk to check what sectors are good or bad and it should flag the bad sectors not to use. When harddrives are made they are full of bad sectors and thats the same thing they do before selling them.

Not sure what your problem is exactly but hope you can recover your stuff. I would try to backup your data and redo all the partitions on the same harddrive.

 

[Laivasse]

The whole window lagging thing can also be down to corrupt files, and might not necessarily be a virus. I once tried to preview a download through emule and it created some corrupt movie file that simply couldn't be deleted, and which caused massive slowdown in all explorer windows (had to delete it through DOS eventually).

I don't know what could be causing the corruption, but a friend had a similar problem when his HD was on the way out.