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    File Corruption problems

    I am currently trying to help a friend save files from an external drive that He has. It is a 500 gb external WD drive formatted Fat32. His backup drive. The music files are not as important as the Family pictures. Unfortunately due to other problems with his system these are the only copies. It was during a rebuild of his system that this wass discovered.

    The Problem: The music files and the picture files have become corrupt. Only those files. All other files are fine. The folders and folder structures are ok, just the files within them are borked. Filenames and extensions of those are shown only as symbols... The files appear to have the correct file sizes listed until you check the file properties, they are all 0 kb.

    I\We have: Run multiple diags, CHKDSK, Virus\Malware scans, thinking either bad sectors or virus. Nothing found.

    I am currently 90% finished running HDD Regenerator on it but again nothing has been found.

    Does anyone know of malware that would only attack these files and cause this?

    Any other ideas?


    Here is a screenshot.

    See what I mean about the file sizes?
    Last edited by rik; June 9th, 2009 at 16:51 PM. Reason: added screenshot

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