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ALL FOLDERS ON MY EXTERNAL HARD DISK CHANGED TO .SCR

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I had given my external hard disk to my friend as he needed some files and he returned it to me today. When I connected it to my computer, I saw that all the folders were changed to .scr and I couldn't access any of them. I even scanned it with Avast but selected the repair option on detection but when the virus got detected it showed a write error. Please help me. I have very important files on my disk.

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Did you just get..... hacked?

 

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I'm not sure what to say man, folders aren't files they are folders. Meaning they don't have a extension. 

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1 minute ago, Xenift said:

Did you just get..... hacked?

 

Nope.

 

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If you notice the icon for the "folders" are the XP style ones.  You'll also notice that they have a size... yup, those are files.  idk what was on that drive but it looks like it's just all viruses now.

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Just now, Being Delirious said:

I'm not sure what to say man, folders aren't files they are folders. Meaning they don't have a extension. 

Ikr !! But look at it. Windows is showing that it's a screensaver type file or whatever it is

 

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1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

If you notice the icon for the "folders" are the XP style ones.  You'll also notice that they have a size... yup, those are files.  idk what was on that drive but it looks like it's just all viruses now.

Yup

U have any suggestions ?

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Just now, Anuraag said:

Ikr !! But look at it. Windows is showing that it's a screensaver type file or whatever it is

 

because it is

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Yup

U have any suggestions ?

you could try a disk recovery program I suppose

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Just now, Anuraag said:

Ikr !! But look at it. Windows is showing that it's a screensaver type file or whatever it is

 

I don't think those will be recoverable. Sorry man. you can try changing it to a .zip but I can't be 100% sure that will work.

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I wouldn't trust that friend of yours with your data and/or HDD again. 

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Did they say what they were doing or did that caused the drastic changes? 

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3 hours ago, Anuraag said:

Nope.

 

Are you sure about that?... ".SCR" files are associated with scripts. 

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Man, what type of friend is he/she? I mean, they probably had a virus on their system before plugging in the external drive or...they put a virus themselves. 

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Just now, IAmLamp said:

Are you sure about that?... ".SCR" files are associated with trojans. 

well, they're screensaver files but often used to distribute viruses, same as exe

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So can anyone tell me what should I be doing now to recover my files or repair my hard disk ? Please help me. I have very important files on that disk.

 

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3 minutes ago, Anuraag said:

So can anyone tell me what should I be doing now to recover my files or repair my hard disk ? Please help me. I have very important files on that disk.

 

I think its just a prank.

It's just the names being changed, reverting the name back with their extensions should fix the issues.

 

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No it's not a prank. I've tried changing it's formats but it's not working. Even the antivirus is showing a virus detection.

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23 minutes ago, Anuraag said:

So can anyone tell me what should I be doing now to recover my files or repair my hard disk ? Please help me. I have very important files on that disk.

 

I said you need to run a disk recovery software that will try to restore all the deleted data

20 minutes ago, Xenift said:

I think its just a prank.

It's just the names being changed, reverting the name back with their extensions should fix the issues.

 

It's not a prank... it's not just renamed, there were folders of data and now those are all deleted and it's been replaced with screensaver files with the same name as the old folders to try to trick the user into opening them.

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