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this is a reply I sent to a young lady on partyflock who had a similar problem, in fact her disk had gone so bad the X: drive had activated. (found on Vista and Win7) (translation is below). the files are salvageable but you need to act fast. TBH if you have a computer shop downstairs then might as well get them to do it if it doesn’t cost too much.

het x station een noodbesturingsystempartitie is voor nieuwe versies de Windows. wanneer de system-bestanden op het C:* station corrupt zijn, wordt Windows met dit X:partitie starten. jammer, de harde schijf is kapot. vaak gebeurt dit probleem, als de laptop over heeft geklopt . Je moet een nieuwe schijf te kopen en in de laptop kast te monteren. (ongeveer €70), Dan Windows opnieuw installeren op de nieuwe schijf. Als je geen backups heeft, je kun met een andere computer en een datakabel (SATA of IDE) je originële gegevens (fotos, muziek en andere) van de oude schif te kopieren. En dan moet je toch backups maken!

the X: drive is an emergency boot system partition for newer versions of windows. When the system files on the C drive are corrupt, windows will start witht the X: drive. unfortunately, the hard drive is knackered. This problem often occurs if the laptop has been dropped. you must buy a new unit and fix it in the laptop case. then install windows again on the new drive. if you don’t have backups, you can use a data cable and another computer to copy your original files (photos, music and other stuff) from the old drive. And then you must make some backups!

this one I am using now has been fixed as it was my mums old one from Malaysia (hence why it has a US keyboard layout), its relatively new though from about 2008.

A combination of it randomly starting up off standby due to their notoriously bad mains electric and being jolted about when travelling back and forth between MY and Blighty did for the original hard drive and battery. with a bit more RAM, new battery and upgraded to Win 7 its handy for work when working on site on the telephone exchanges.

The screen is bigger than the netbook which now gets mostly used for decoding radio traffic due to its long battery life and clean power, also this plugs into the HDMI on the telly as I hardly ever watch normal telly..

@DaftFader 479248 wrote:

e majority are Russian mafia trying to make cash from online fraud/card theft. [/quote]

used to be them and they do still have some involvement but increasingly nowadays its foreign students from that part of the world (though understandable folk think “russian mafia”), various Asians and even geeky British kids with tech knowledge but no morals. Quite a few prestigious unis in London have been turned over by metpol computer crimes squad recently.

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It’s likely to have left a backdoor open as well so people can access your laptop without you knowing which I also haven’t fixed (and wouldn’t really even be sure how to fix without guidance from some uber-geeks on a forum I look at sometimes).

not easy job, you need either a custom router or a draytek with a mirrored port, another computer to log the data and the skills to pick apart legit traffic from the worm. unless you are being paid to do so or have a real interest in this sort of thing, quite frankly its quicker and less hassle to reformat the computer than delve into network traffic at that level. I did set up a LAN/WAN monitor in the 2000s in a squat to show hippies how insecure many sites were sending passwords in plain text, but that was years ago.