Bleargh!
Last night, I was playing Warcraft 3, and when I finished, I tried to play some mp3s, but Winamp kept skipping and skipping to the next song, like it does when it cant find the files. So I open up Winders Explorer, and my ewntire D: drive is corrupted! All the folder and file names are written in psuedo "1337-speak," with alternating capital and lowercase letters, and lots of hidden characters and tildes. I ran Norton Disk Doctor, and it tried to revive and rebuild the partition, but no avail. Norton AV detected nothing, so I'm hoping this is just a particularly gruesome random FAT crash.
However, I discussed this with my boss today, and he warned me of impending RIAA viruses embedded in mp3 files that are distributed through P2P networks. I had just downloaded a few mp3s prior to this, but they were fairly obscure, and I really doubt that the RIAA has started doing this yet. So for the moment that thought is merely in the back of my mind; I am not giving it any serious consideration.
Does anyone know if FAT systems get corrupted like this with such abruptness? It literally was fine just 20 minutes before.... I have the majority of my mp3s backed up, but alas, I also had personal images, music videos, babe pics and "necessary stuff" (like drivers) on the disk... ANy tips on how to get them back? Norton DD will no longer run, saying that another disk utility is already working or something to that effect.
Last night, I was playing Warcraft 3, and when I finished, I tried to play some mp3s, but Winamp kept skipping and skipping to the next song, like it does when it cant find the files. So I open up Winders Explorer, and my ewntire D: drive is corrupted! All the folder and file names are written in psuedo "1337-speak," with alternating capital and lowercase letters, and lots of hidden characters and tildes. I ran Norton Disk Doctor, and it tried to revive and rebuild the partition, but no avail. Norton AV detected nothing, so I'm hoping this is just a particularly gruesome random FAT crash.
However, I discussed this with my boss today, and he warned me of impending RIAA viruses embedded in mp3 files that are distributed through P2P networks. I had just downloaded a few mp3s prior to this, but they were fairly obscure, and I really doubt that the RIAA has started doing this yet. So for the moment that thought is merely in the back of my mind; I am not giving it any serious consideration.
Does anyone know if FAT systems get corrupted like this with such abruptness? It literally was fine just 20 minutes before.... I have the majority of my mp3s backed up, but alas, I also had personal images, music videos, babe pics and "necessary stuff" (like drivers) on the disk... ANy tips on how to get them back? Norton DD will no longer run, saying that another disk utility is already working or something to that effect.