Rock wrote:
On Thu, 09 May 2013 18:53:30 -0700, Keith Keller wrote:
Is it already "putting" your files somewhere? If so it's almost certainly too late to throw a linux recovery tool at it.
Nothing, to my knowledge, is being written to the external NTFS USB hard drive.
The files are being put on the C:\ drive of the Windows machine.
So, I don't see why the USB drive isn't in the same shape as it was when this happened.
Did I do something wrong?
Yes. What you should have done was buy or burn (ON ANOTHER MACHINE!!!) a virus checking/cleaning tool, and ->boot from that<-, NOT from your h/d, and let it work. Dunno if you missed my earlier post, but I'd guess that whatever infected your system had a protection mechanism, so that if you tried to backup the whole drive, it would mangle something on the recipient drive, so that *it* couldn't be examined easily.
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