Files getting deleted

My brother's computer used to lock up and stuff when it tried to load up thumbnails of movies and stuff, switching to list view helped there.

If it isn't a virus you could try and do that, to see if something happens when windows tries to preview stuff.



I'd say it's a virus, tho', never heard of problem exactly like yours. Did you make sure you formatted all drives in there properly?

But just in case it's a weird case of northbridge-overheating (can cause file-corruption, tho' I never heard of it doing something this specific) or something: check the cooling on your mobo, if there's a small fan on top of the northridge, make sure it spins. Also try running memtest, bad sticks of memory can cause data-corruption.

Also make sure that the drive itself is ok.

Might as well try some weird stuff, if you made absolutely certain it wasn't a virus or a hacker.



And did you install anything weird before it started doing this?

AVG is not worth a light, I'm afraid, so you can't say with certainty that you don't have a virus.
Scan your system with a better AV product (NOD32 or Kaspersky highly recommended).

Personally, I think your HDD's on the way out.

my 1st hdd (the one that works) is a few years old, but the seagate 160 gb (the corrupted one) I got last summer :( . Ill dl nod32/kaspersky. thanks. Ill also try a memtest.


From what I remember, it started when I installed dvdfab. after installing it, you have to install a registry addition to get dvdfab to work. Could that be it? Could it be the registry?

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Also make sure that the drive itself is ok.

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sound advice

@maebach - have you ran chkdsk, seatools or anything like that?

I did, and I forgot to mention what it said.

'Errors Found. CHKDSK cannot not continue in read-only mode.'

what do I do? how do I schedule for it to run at startup, and whats seatools?

http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

I would have chkdsk try to repair/recover the bad sectors

example:

chkdsk d: /r

or use Seatools :P

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'Errors Found. CHKDSK cannot not continue in read-only mode.'

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you didn't give it a fix/recovery command
in cmd prompt that's the /r or /f tags
in gui there's some checkboxes for them

sorry man but thats what happen on my old school p3 500 mhz pc with the hd i just had to give up throw it out and buy a new one and redownload a lot of things.

it took me about 10 mins to fully startup my pc today.

I got 1 error at startup ( I think it might be from nod32):

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2060/untitled2dr.jpg


this one was during ckdsk, I tried opening my 2nd hdd (corrupt one):

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/4...itledqq6kb.jpg

Have you run seatools yet?