A USB flash drive inserted into one USB port stopped being fully recognized by the computer. A second later, it would work perfectly fine in the port right next to the non-working one. The jump drive was not working by the following terms: It did not show up as a drive under My Computer. The disk management tool under the Microsoft Management Console did not show any file … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2008
Undeleting files on Windows – Recovering after accidental deletion
To understand how undeleting a file in Windows would work and the odds of success, it is helpful to know how a file is deleted. Say you have a file on your hard drive. It could be a text file or a bitmap image, anything like that. Your file is allocating a certain amount of space on your hard drive, a physical location on the disk. The operating system (Windows) points to this … [Read more...]
Trojan Dangerous Virus
"System Error! Your system is infected with dangerous virus! Note: Strongly recommended to install antispyware program to clean your system and avoid total crash of your computer! Click OK to download the antispyware(recommended)" This error message would pop up any time a user was browsing with IE or going through My Computer at random folders it would pop up. Clicking … [Read more...]