Virus may have corrupted my partition

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I think I may have been infected by a virus today. I was visiting a torrent site and a window popped up in Firefox and quickly disappeared again. Later I noticed a process running at 100%. I ran the NOD32 virus scan and halfway through, XP blue-screened and restarted. It now won't boot into XP, even in Safe mode.

I've now forgotten the exact name of the process. :rolleyes: It was something like GetAudioInfo.exe or GetSoundInfo.exe. I found it on Google at the time but didn't get to read about it because of the bluescreen. It definitely started with Get and ended with Info.exe. The middle word has something to do with audio or sound. I can't remember :mad: The wildcard on Google doesn't work for filenames. Get*Info.exe for example.

My hard drive has two partitions on it. XP and Vista. Vista won't load either.

I put in the XP CD and booted up the machine. On the screen where it asks you what partition you want to install to, it has:

C: Partition1 [Unknown]
F: Partition2 (Vista) [NTFS]

So that suggests to me that the XP partition is corrupted.

Any recommendations on what I should do next? Is there any good software that can analyze and repair the partitions? Anything I can run from CD at boot up? I have backups of my data from last week but I've tons of programs and settings on XP that I don't want to loose.

Thanks
 
mattyrigby00 said:
sounds like it killed the partition table

Yep :(

I tried running Vista again, and after 5 minutes of a black screen, the Vista Chkdisc program started to repair the table. It's been at it for 40 minutes now.

I'm guessing that I'll still have to reinstall XP though, and loose all my programs :rolleyes: Thanks to Firefox for wrecking my PC, and NOD32 for not stopping it.
 
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Update: It seems that the hard disk is faulty. The system hangs when reading certain sectors. The disk has been running 24/7 since 2005 so I'm not surprised. I'm beginning to think that the virus incidient was just a coincidence.

Can anyone recommend some data recovery software that doesn't hang on bad sectors?
 
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