Huge virus problem

[Sprats]

So my lame *** college cant afford a proper antivirus package and because of that the people who use USBs on computers got a virus from it. Some of the students got their work deleted, others got corrupted and as for me, everything was fine.
Now I try to open some folders in the USB and they wont open because they got corrupted, so I was wondering if theres a way to fix corrupted ****. The error Im getting says the file directory location and "The folder cannot be opened because it is corrupted or unreadable".
And I gotta bring so much work for tomorow. So dear gentelmen, any way to access corrupted files? ;(

And a message to all students, backup your work every day after your lessons, I havent done it and Im probably aint gonna pass my course cause of that.

With all love, sprats.

[SnipingCoward]

Yes, there are many ways. So you have a lot of options to try out.

There are quite a few free/shareware "Flash" file recovery tools out there that you can try. (Recuva for example is a gerenal purpose file recoverer that might help as well). Different programs will probably yield different results on which files they find and can recover so you should try multiple untill you have got the files that you need.

If you were working on Text documents you could try and check the program's temporary folders for earlier versions of the documents.

Check Disk ("chkdsk h: /r") will clean up the file system and get rid of the corruption while "trying" to repair files. (But it might make things worse too).


Good Luck.

[Sprats]

SnipingCoward;1600397']Yes, there are many ways. So you have a lot of options to try out.

There are quite a few free/shareware "Flash" file recovery tools out there that you can try. (Recuva for example is a gerenal purpose file recoverer that might help as well). Different programs will probably yield different results on which files they find and can recover so you should try multiple untill you have got the files that you need.

If you were working on Text documents you could try and check the program's temporary folders for earlier versions of the documents.

Check Disk ("chkdsk h: /r") will clean up the file system and get rid of the corruption while "trying" to repair files. (But it might make things worse too).


Good Luck.

Thanks for tips, tried one software, it allowed me to go to corrupted folders but there was nothing inside there so I guess the files are gone and no way back.

update: tried the check disk well it worked, it deleted 3 teachers work and left 1. at least better than nothing. thanks again mate
Well seems I should start looking for a job. You can lock the thread now

[Wraith]

ROFL, when I read my cheap *** college all I really saw was that you are too cheap to buy your stuff so you are going to blame your school, classy!

[LITOralis.nMd]

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[WelshManDan]

ROFL, when I read my cheap *** college all I really saw was that you are too cheap to buy your stuff so you are going to blame your school, classy!

Confused.com

Did you not read the whole post? His college computers got a virus, and it infected students USB drives.

Or, are you implying that the actual infection came from illegal content?

I am actually confused

Oh and a similar problem happened to my friend, a full two years of college work have gone out the window thanks to a virus he got on his External hard drive, I would also recommend backing work up in future, as I lost a lot of work at one point, but I had it backed up.

[otom24]

I recommend you to recover your USB stick in a virtual box. Maybe your computer was not infected because your thumbdrive is broken and unreadable.

VirtualBox

[Sprats]

Thanks for the replies people but as I said before, I have done a checkdisk and it erased most of the work, only left some of it.

Me no understand what wraith is trying to say, somebody had some fun with crack.

[Valleyforge3946]

Ouch... sounds like Conficker almost. Had that at My high school while i was interning there as an IT tech. Annoying as hell to deal with. Jumped all over the damn place. Then right after that the school server got hi-jacked. Lol.