Me fall out of love with the GTi?

[08micsta]

Hello Newgolf.

Thanks for the kind words and suggestions. I had my stuff backed up and usually do it every month but have been a bit busy and kinda didnt do it for about 5 months  :embarassed: :embarassed: :embarassed:

The hardrive didnt crash. It stills works fine. I got a virus and whenever I plugged a flashdrive in it would corrupt it... Only problem is my flashdrive is a 4 gig which means all my work on that flashdrive got corrupted including two 4000 word essays and my final art practical. I also lost a lot of pictures and stuff from my business that was on them.

I have AVG and had Norton and have the latest virus definitions but it does not pick anything up. Eventually I switched the PC on and it just crashed. I plugged my HD into another computer and added a second hardrive as the master. Retrieved what I could from the hardrive which was cactually quite a lot.

I figured because of Windows constantly letting me down I would go for Opensuse or even Ubuntu which is not so prone to viruses but now that I have Opensure it wont mount a second hardrive so I cant access my work...  So I have put a order in for Vista cos apparently its less prone to viruses.
Ideally a macbook or something would be great but its a tad out of my budget 

The flashdrives are a complete loss. Been sent in for data recovery and they got a grand total of 3 pictures and they were not even work related. The one was Gaz'z S3 and the other was of my mom's GTI and my dads Pajero. 

Once I get a decent pc and operating system I will defenitely start backing up more often. But so you learn.

I just had a thought. Say your pc has a virus and you plug it into your GTi via VAG-COM. IS it possible to put a virus on the cars computer?

Mike

[R32UK]

Im sure its very possible! but who would be sad enought to write a virus for a car??

[08micsta]

BMW.... or a rival company?

[topher]

but now that I have Opensure it wont mount a second hardrive

you have to make the mount point then manually mount it

so for example if linux sees the second hard disk as sda1, do

#mkdir /media/sda1
#mount /dev/sdb1 /media/sda1

[NewGolf]

Ok Mike here goes.
Put the hard disk from the knackered PC in a good working PC that is fully up to date with Virus Definitions, Windows defender and Windows Security Updates as a "Slave" drive on the secondary IDE or SATA channel. Use a cheap piece of software named "Get Data Back" from here

http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

It looks like a cheapie website, but the software is fantastic at recovery.  I used it at my work many times and the IT dept swear by its ability. You need to find out if the Disk was FAT or NTFS, get the correct bit of software and away you go. It works on USB keys, memory cards etc. It will get back any data thats on the drive, even data thats been deleted!   Read the user guide, and if you need any help with it, I'll help. if you get stuck, mail the USB key to me and I'll get the data off for you.

HTH  

[08micsta]

I was told to go to Yast control. Then "partitions" and click on the hardrive you want to mount and click create. Then dont click "format" and simply type in /mnt under FStab options. It keeps throwing up errors through  

Where should I be typing that in Toph?

I have version 10.3.

Mike

(This has gone way off topic. Feel free to move mods. I dont mind)

[NewGolf]

DONT use that drive on a non Windows OS if you want to get any data off it Mike!

[08micsta]

Thank you Newgolf. I love it. Will download it tomorrow at school.

What happens if you formatted the flashdrive though? Then I assume you cant get any info back right?

Mike

DONT use that drive on a non Windows OS if you want to get any data off it Mike!

Shiza...... I tried to partition it on Opensuse already  But then deleted the partitions 

[topher]

at a bash prompt, logged in as root obviously.. i'm not really a 'point and click' guy when it comes to nix os though, oldskool command line, so can't help with whichever front end you have there.. do check your jumpers are set right for slave/master though!

and as above^ don't be doing that if you want to do a win32 recovery on the disk

[NewGolf]

Thank you Newgolf. I love it. Will download it tomorrow at school.

What happens if you formatted the flashdrive though? Then I assume you cant get any info back right?

Mike

DONT use that drive on a non Windows OS if you want to get any data off it Mike!

Shiza...... I tried to partition it on Opensuse already  But then deleted the partitions 

It'll still get data off the drive, just dont overwrite whatevers on it with new data "over the top". When you delete stuff on a windows drive, it just gets the record wiped showing where that data is, its still there but the drive doesnt know about it. You'll get stuff you need off it, I'm pretty certain of that!