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Offline Mustaine

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« on: April 08, 2006, 05:16:54 PM »
just installed AVAST to keep my PC safe from what i am about to do....

buddies system has a bugger of a problem. winlogon, services, lsass, userinit, and explorer have all failed to start because ole32.dll was not found.

bastard of a problem, and i am going to re-format their HD from scratch....

anyway, they have 1000's of digital camera pisc on the HD that need to be saved. i am going to put their HD in my PC and grab the pics, and a few PDF's like tax info.




you think AVAST will keep my PC safe if they have a virus?
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« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2006, 05:22:45 PM »
Yes, your puter will be safe as long as you don't boot from their HD. Also do not run any executables on their HD and make sure you only copy archive files from their HD (pictures, music etc.). E-mails you should be careful with.
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« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2006, 05:23:46 PM »
Unless you specifically run a file/program from that hard drive it can not infect your computer. Just make sure you have a nice updated antivirus program installed just in case you do run something on accident and you are fine.

I recommend:

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
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« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2006, 06:32:14 PM »
thanks. AVAST seems to be working fine....

now i am stuck.

all his stuff is in "my documents" on his HD, of course "access denied" :furious :mad:

i promised his wife i could save their family pictures, and now i doubt i can

:furious :mad: :O :mad:
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« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2006, 07:28:35 PM »
google bart pe and make a boot cd with whatever you need on it to get the pictures out. heck heres the url.  or you could install the missing file

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder
« Last Edit: April 08, 2006, 07:33:16 PM by JTs »
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« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2006, 07:41:52 PM »
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Originally posted by Mustaine
thanks. AVAST seems to be working fine....

now i am stuck.

all his stuff is in "my documents" on his HD, of course "access denied" :furious :mad:

i promised his wife i could save their family pictures, and now i doubt i can

:furious :mad: :O :mad:


if your running XP, boot up in safe mode, select the administrator account, and you should be able to modify the access rights through there.
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Offline deSelys

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« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2006, 03:06:19 AM »
Linux live-on CD is your friend...

www.knoppix.org
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« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2006, 03:09:57 AM »
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Originally posted by Mustaine
thanks. AVAST seems to be working fine....

now i am stuck.

all his stuff is in "my documents" on his HD, of course "access denied" :furious :mad:

i promised his wife i could save their family pictures, and now i doubt i can

:furious :mad: :O :mad:

If their pictures are important, you should stop now and take it to somebody who knows what they're doing.
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« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2006, 11:57:03 AM »
If you log on as the administrator (or if your user account has admin rights) you can simply right-click on the directory in question and select the "security" tab. In the "advanced" section you can take ownership of the files, giving you access to them.
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« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2006, 12:42:46 PM »
Hey Dave

I recommend using program if you can't get them.

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm

It's not a user friendly program, but it works for getting files off of drives that are no longer readable, which is not what your situation is, but you should be able to do a *.jpg search, or whatever format their pictures are in and pull them over.  Usually by doing this, you can get around security settings.

I am assuming that their drive is in your computer and slaved to your master.
« Last Edit: April 09, 2006, 12:46:40 PM by JB66 »
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Offline dmf

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« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2006, 07:08:35 PM »
Hook their hard drive up as the slave drive, and make sure that your antivirus is running and protection the slave hard drive too.
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« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2006, 07:14:04 PM »
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Originally posted by Mustaine
thanks. AVAST seems to be working fine....

now i am stuck.

all his stuff is in "my documents" on his HD, of course "access denied" :furious :mad:

i promised his wife i could save their family pictures, and now i doubt i can

:furious :mad: :O :mad:


I had the same problem (and the same panic) when I wiped my C drive. As stated above, you can boot up as admin and take control of that folder.
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« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2006, 08:29:41 PM »
yup, all taken care of. admin, owned the whole HD, got the files, re-formatted their HD , installed and all is hunky-dory.

thats for the tips all
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« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2006, 11:31:40 PM »
Good, for future reference use NOD32 antivirus and Sygate personal firewall, they keep out 99.9% of all the bad stuff.
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