when your windows got corrupted what you do
By 1anurag1
@1anurag1 (3576)
India
April 3, 2010 11:58am CST
today due to any virus some of my system files get corrupted. i did many efforts to get back every thing. but could not.
even i run a setup but was unsuccessful.
but some files which were creating trouble for me, got deleted by my antivirus. and after some initial configuration i got every thing back.
what about you. how you tackle these problems.
6 responses
@getbiswa2000 (5544)
• India
3 Apr 10
Hi,
I always have my antivirus updated. Sometimes when my USB gets infected from some public computer, I just format it. If some important system files gets corrupted or missing, I have to reinstall the entire operating system. Now, this is tedious. I usually make a lot of customization in my operating system. Each time I reinstall it, I have to do everything over again. So I prefer to be cautious about those malwares.
God bless you
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
5 Apr 10
I have only had this happen to me a couple of times and both times when it has happened, I will take the hard drive out of my computer and set it up as an external with my husband's computer. I will then take everything that I need off of the main hard drive. Then, we will put it back into my computer and reformat/reinstall my operating system and start fresh. This is time consuming and I will admit that, but it takes less time in the long run than trying to locate the individual files that are corrupted.
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
3 Apr 10
It is a long time since I had any real issue with a virus, but I keep a full backup of data and a system backup as a matter of good practice. If I had a major issue that was difficult to deal with I could easily run the image backup onto my computer and overwrite everything.
@kryptoscode (452)
• Philippines
5 Apr 10
When a pc is infected with a virus and the system where damage what I usually do is to clean the system first to check again if there is no virus anymore. And then using a bootable cd I will restore the registry to a previous setup usually it's the registry are always targeted by the viruses. And i will do check disk (chkdsk) command it's a windows utilities to fixed and restore damage system files. If all fails to revived the operating system I will do re-installation of it.But the first two option will just work fine for me always.
@anurag3786 (6267)
• India
4 Apr 10
I think when my windows got corrupted then first things i do with my system.. is system restore.. after that if problem is not solved.. then only one way and that is format the system.. have a nice day and keep mylotting always..
@aragone79 (82)
• Indonesia
4 Apr 10
First, Run System Restore, and choose restore point, maybe from the last month.
Second, If System Restore cannot help or the problem still shows up, Re-install Operating System+Re-format harddisk. Before you do that, please move all your important files and programs to media backup such as DVD, BluRay or external harddisk.
Hope this will help you.
