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Windows Forum / Windows XP / General Topics 1 / May 2008drives in my computer missing
Just recovered from a hijack/virus/malware. Somehow the drives (C: hard drive, D: floppy) have dissappeared from My Computer...but they are still there and they are present in a newly created user acct. Can't find the path by backing out of My Documents neither so no access to My Programs, etc. Hard disk and floppy are ident as C: and D: in Hardware. Must be a setting for the main admin/user that was hijacked....but I can't find it. insert the install cd and format and do a reinstall. > Just recovered from a hijack/virus/malware. > Somehow the drives (C: hard drive, D: floppy) have dissappeared from My [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Must be a setting for the main admin/user that was hijacked....but I can't > find it. That's a great idea, but I'll hold off for a while. I would think just deleting the user acct and using another would work...as I said, everything is still there, it's just not visible by one user acct. I would think there is a setting that's been changed and can be changed back. thanks. > insert the install cd and format and do a reinstall. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Must be a setting for the main admin/user that was hijacked....but I can't > > find it. > That's a great idea, but I'll hold off for a while. I would think just > deleting the user acct and using another would work...as I said, > everything > is still there, it's just not visible by one user acct. > I would think there is a setting that's been changed and can be changed > back. If it works properly in another account, then it's likely that the original user profile is corrupted. You should just migrate the data and settings to new accounts and delete the damaged ones. This will likely be faster and cleaner than trying to find and fix an unknowable set of obscure damage. HTH -pk > thanks. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> > can't >> > find it. |
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