Half of my music collection gone....

[Bram]

Area: Windows
MP Version: RC4 with SVN of the 13th of may
Skin: PMIII
Windows Version: Windows XP Pro SP2 with all updates
CPU Type: AMD Sempron 2800+ (@ 2,4Ghz)
Memory: 768MB DDR400
Motherboard Chipset: ASUS s754 VIA (can't trace the model right now)
Video Card: ATI 9250 128MB
Video Card Driver: latest official Ati drivers
Video Card Resolution: 1024x768
Video Render Type: VMR9 or Overlay (where can I check this?)
Video Codec Type & Version: Cyberlink
Audio Codec Type & Version: Cyberlink

Synopsis:
Somehow, almost half of my music collection is deleted. This has to be happened in the last 24 hours. I am the only person who uses the computer and has acces to the computer. I'm talking about +/- 78GB of music. It seems to be random. I have stored my music by artist in alphabetic folders (A-B-C-etc.). In some directories nothing is deleted. In others almost everything.

It seems to have happend after I installed the last SVN of the 11th of may.

I'm so fucking worried right now. This is desastrous because a lot of music I made myself seems to be deleted. That is unrecoverable. I was planning to buy a backup disc next month. I really hope someone can advise me on what software to use for recovery.

[Spragleknas]

Hmm... deja vu?

There was a thread here earlier about the same problem... try searching.

BTW: Starting to get worried myself.


EDIT: found it http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/vi...=music+deleted

[Commodore 64]

I just backed up my 30+GB of mp3 just in case!

[ronilse]

Bram,
Can you post your system specs according to this template http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=6436


I use "EasyRecovery Pro" for recovering of lost data.

Regards
Roy

[samuel337]

Stop using that hard drive with the music on it immediately. Any further usage could possibly make recovery more difficult.

Using another hard drive (or just plug the 'music' hard drive into another computer as slave), try this free program:
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm

Just outta curiosity, what file system were you using? If its NTFS, it could just be a security/file permission issue...

Sam

[Bram]

Originally Posted by ronilse

Bram,
Can you post your system specs according to this template http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=6436


I use "EasyRecovery Pro" for recovering of lost data.

Regards
Roy

Trying to locate EasyRecovery now.
Thanks for the reactions. I altered the SP with the template.

I use NTFS on a brand new 320 GB HDD (WD).

[Aquarius]

Hi,
an easy and free program to get your lost data back is "Restoration" by Brian Kato. It's freeware. It helped me a lot.

If don't find it with Google, send me an PM and I'll send it.

Good luck.
/Gerd

[fake9]

Hi There,

Try using a online virus scan

A new virus deletes a lot of mp3's. More info here
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/anal...ojerazera.html

Cheerio
Tv

[fake9]

The Trojan also deletes files from the shared folders for P2P applications with the following file extensions:

AVI BMP COM DOC DOT GIF HTM HTML JPG JS MP3 MP3 MPEG MPG RAR TXT VBS WAV WMA WMV ZIP

Troj/Erazer-A deletes files from the following locations:

<System>\*.doc
<System>\*.hlp
<System>\*.log
<User>\*.avi
<User>\*.bmp
<User>\*.doc
<User>\*.exe
<User>\*.jpg
<User>\*.mp3
<User>\*.mpg
<User>\*.ppt
<User>\*.txt

[Bram]

So far I have aprtially recovered my music with Active@ Undelete.
Hopefully I can get everything back. I don't have a clue what could have coused the deletion.

I have a good virusscanner (NOD32). Never failed me, yet.