AvsGirl41
New Yorker
It's uncertain whether my computer is having software problems, hardware problems, or some fun combination of the two.
I removed a MASSIVE amount of spyware (and this with Ad-Aware running) and a trojan horse over Labor Day weekend. It was causing the screen to flash uncontrollably, making rebooting extremely difficult. After cleaning out the garbage, and running some scans and repairs, the problem seemed to be cleared up.
Until this week. My CD-ROM drive is not ejecting disks, you usually have to go and right click on the D: drive to open it. It is reading disks that aren't currently loaded, implying that it's transferred the data. I often find folders from my CD on the C: drive, sometimes they're empty, sometimes they're not. Yet they're still on the disk....or are they? 2 nights ago, it ate a text file I'd been working on from a CD-RW.
I'm scheduling my computer for repair with someone far more skilled than me (I think it needs to be wiped again, but since the CD-Rom isn't working well, I'm concerned it might not be able to do the System Restore.). But here are my concerns that I hope someone can answer:
Is my CD-RW disk corrupted? There's 3 years worth of papers and notes and I am myself at the idea of them being lost. I've opened a few, and they seem to be ok, but what's the possibility that they've been corrupted merely by accessing them? I haven't edited any of them since it ate the one I'd been working on. If they're appearing on C and D, what does that mean for the originals on the disk?
Please help me.
I removed a MASSIVE amount of spyware (and this with Ad-Aware running) and a trojan horse over Labor Day weekend. It was causing the screen to flash uncontrollably, making rebooting extremely difficult. After cleaning out the garbage, and running some scans and repairs, the problem seemed to be cleared up.
Until this week. My CD-ROM drive is not ejecting disks, you usually have to go and right click on the D: drive to open it. It is reading disks that aren't currently loaded, implying that it's transferred the data. I often find folders from my CD on the C: drive, sometimes they're empty, sometimes they're not. Yet they're still on the disk....or are they? 2 nights ago, it ate a text file I'd been working on from a CD-RW.
I'm scheduling my computer for repair with someone far more skilled than me (I think it needs to be wiped again, but since the CD-Rom isn't working well, I'm concerned it might not be able to do the System Restore.). But here are my concerns that I hope someone can answer:
Is my CD-RW disk corrupted? There's 3 years worth of papers and notes and I am myself at the idea of them being lost. I've opened a few, and they seem to be ok, but what's the possibility that they've been corrupted merely by accessing them? I haven't edited any of them since it ate the one I'd been working on. If they're appearing on C and D, what does that mean for the originals on the disk?
Please help me.