Restore a Partition?

Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:24 am Post subject: Restore a Partition?

First one to answer this gets a soggy cookie.

In the past, I have managed to do a system restore on my 98 partition whilst in XP (home ed). I can not for the life of me remember how I did it.

Can anyone refresh my memory?

I have a hideous browser hijack that has totally destroyed my internet connection. Suprisingly, I wasn't looking at pRon this time. Was downloading clip art. Yeah that's it! Clip art.

The cookie is only getting soggier.
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vTEC · Server Admin Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 1495

uh..try deleteing that partition and create a new one.maybe it'll work and let you do a system restore...thats what my computer has been doing the past few days
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SilverOne · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:55 am Post subject:

Have you run the usual spyware removal program to get rid of this hijack?
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osiris · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:11 pm Post subject:

I just recently found a really easy way to partion ur drive .. IF u have more then one computer...

Take the hard drive Outta the computer you want to partition and then hook it up to ur CD/DVD drive on ur other computer restart and go into bios have it load ur new hard drive go into windows my Computer and then ur D: drive will now be ur hard drive u can go ahead and copy ur windows files from ur C: drive to ur D: drive since u said uve used it b4 it should already be partioned and u can add w.e files u need... THis way you can also save any information that might have been lost say if u had to reinstall the OS cuz it would n0t load propley or w/e...

I found this out by accident my cpu dosent have alot of memory to save stuff and i had a olld computer so i wanted to try to put 2 hard drives into one computer.. well i got it to work.. somewhat i have to switch the cables from my cd/dvd drive to my hard drive any time i want to access it but then my D: drive becomes a 20gb hard drive and surprise surprise It Still had all the old files on it ...so now i occansionay hook up my 2nd hard drive and upload my music collection to that instead of storin them onto my computers main C: hard drive...

Hope this makes sense to ya

Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 1:22 pm Post subject:

Vulcan · Registered User Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 2773

This might help a bit:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.easysearch.html
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Potato-VS- · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 7:44 pm Post subject:

You must petition your computer to do a proper partition

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Gamepro65 · Registered User Joined: 02 Dec 2001 Posts: 710

*edit* ignore what i said, i read it wrong. im not sure how to do that, im not fluent with using the system restore.
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osiris · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 9:04 pm Post subject:

i just installed XP-Home on my sis's cpu and the xp install cd had the option to partion a drive or delete a partion in part of the xp install.. maybe thats what u used b4, sorry for my last post i thought u had a hard drive u wanted to partion i didint realize u only had 1 drive that u had partioned into 2 and ran one with xp and other with 98... Hope this helps... Bet that cookie is pretty soggy by now..

Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:19 pm Post subject:

Well, I finally figured it out.

It didn't fix it. So, I guess I am forced to d-load hijackthis and go through all that bull$%^ or format the drive.

See ya in about a month.

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FingerDemon · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:39 pm Post subject:

KRG,

Go to Ad-Aware's support forum and you can post your logs there and get expert volunteer help in fixing stuff like this. They are really great. I had a really persistent Spyware problem and they helped me track it down. It took a while, but at least I didn't break anything else while trying to fix it. FYI, read the rules before posting, they are a little touchy over there.

Here's the link
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com

The nice part about this is that you are helping them to identify things that are not fixed by Ad-aware and can be added to their next update. So, you are fixing your machine and providing a public service.

Good luck,

FD

Vulcan · Registered User Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 2773

KRG, I have a few things to try to fix this. Try to catch me in theville chat or #theville on irc.
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