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roba · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:46 pm Post subject: Strange things are happening

Today really strange thing happend to me Shocked

. I was cleaning my Windows (uninstalling not needed apps) and everything was ok til I uninstalled GoZilla. It asked for reboot, so I did.

Than I went to my D drive to check for some trash files, but something seemed wrong... you know when you are looking at your drive content 100x a day, you can immediately say that there are not all folders that should be there. And really, some folders were just gone. All my games except UT disappeared from D: drive. I was like WTF!!!! someone hacked me or what??? Than I found System recovery log file and it seems that GoZilla uninstall deleted 6 random folders from D root . I have no idea why, but it just happend. It deleted \Browsers directory with old MSIEs, \Civ3 directory with Civilization3, \NFSPorsche with Porsche savegame files, \RT3 with Railroad Tycoon 3, \UFOA with UFO Apocalypse and \Mafia with Mafia savegames. Looks totaly random. Shocked

lol can someone tell me what happend? Coz I really have no idea wtf was that.

I think it was either some bug in GoZilla uninstaller or some "feature" put in GoZilla as "surprise" for warez version users. BTW files were deleted really good, coz ANY recovery app which I used few mins after delete wasnt not able to recover anything usable. Doesnt look like accident.

Strange huh? Anyway I lost only savegame files, which sucks but isnt any real problem, so I guess I was lucky. Smile

roba · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject:

Hey I was able to recover two savegames Smile

on is most recent in RT3 Very Happy

and second is older one from UFOA (5 days of gameplay lost Sad

). I lost all gamesaves in Mafia (sucks, but there are some floating on the internet), Civ3 (was not important to me) and NFS Porsche (awww I had ALL Porsches in my garage Sad

). Damn I really would like to know what happend.

Sard what was you doing today around 4pm???? Razz

LeeBe · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 9:26 pm Post subject:

lol damn that sucks Confused

did the recovery apps find anything at all??

roba · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject:

Hm only those two savegame files (out of several hundrets)... I tried 4 different recovery apps, 3 were able to recover anything, 4th saw all deleted files, but except those two it said unrecoverable. Strange...

T}{ANAT}{O$ · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:59 am Post subject:

Tried Norton Unerase? Sometimes it helps to recover the most recent(if not deleted real good).
For Mafia savegames - I can send you mine. (they lack some cars and missions in Freeride though)

roba · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 2:53 am Post subject:

No I hadnt Norton. But I tried Easy Recovery Pro which should be good app for it and 3 others... ERP usually helped me, I think files were deleted really hard...

Thanks for maffia files, but I already have some with all cars Smile