Soldato
Hi,
I've not come across this problem before in around 25-30 years of working with Computers.
An all in one acer developed a fault whereby the computer was working fine and then all of a sudden shut down. Turned it back on, black screen, no power, nothing... okay, did some diagnostics - faulty motherboard or something of that ilk - beyond repair anyway.
Pulled the 2.5" SATA Hard Drive out of it to extract data from. Plugged it into my computer and it just showed one folder - Video shortcut - which is actually just a shortcut to the video folder on my computer.
So I did show hidden files etc. and it shows about 4 other system folders, no trace of Windows or user accounts etc.
Ran it through easeus datarecovery and a deep scan took several hours - returned a file structure which seemed to be up to around 2017 but although it showed directories, it didn't 'fetch' any of the data within them - just showing blank except for one or two files per folder.
Is this a massive virus attack or something ? I've tried everything I can think of and I can't understand it - I've never seen a machine die like that and wipe all the contents of a hard drive, at least the visible contents which don't require a deep scan.
Thanks for any advice!
I've not come across this problem before in around 25-30 years of working with Computers.
An all in one acer developed a fault whereby the computer was working fine and then all of a sudden shut down. Turned it back on, black screen, no power, nothing... okay, did some diagnostics - faulty motherboard or something of that ilk - beyond repair anyway.
Pulled the 2.5" SATA Hard Drive out of it to extract data from. Plugged it into my computer and it just showed one folder - Video shortcut - which is actually just a shortcut to the video folder on my computer.
So I did show hidden files etc. and it shows about 4 other system folders, no trace of Windows or user accounts etc.
Ran it through easeus datarecovery and a deep scan took several hours - returned a file structure which seemed to be up to around 2017 but although it showed directories, it didn't 'fetch' any of the data within them - just showing blank except for one or two files per folder.
Is this a massive virus attack or something ? I've tried everything I can think of and I can't understand it - I've never seen a machine die like that and wipe all the contents of a hard drive, at least the visible contents which don't require a deep scan.
Thanks for any advice!