I got a virus on my Pc last year while trying to find the video of modern warfare "no russian scene" I tried everything to get rid of it but not luck, i was running on XP at the time so I then installed Vista and my Pc was fine but it split my HDD in half, im ok with that as I wont fill it but there was a game trailer I made for versus 13 on that other half which got nearly 1 million views on youtube and i want it back(i cant redownload it from youtube as I got told to remove it by youtube and square ) is there anyway I can accses the other half of the HDD and will that virus still be there?

You'd need a recovery tool such as GetDataBack NTFS.

Virus will be there too if you didn't write over it.

It'd still be there so I'd be careful. Personally, I wouldn't want to bother with trying to remove a virus that's hard to remove and wreaking havok so I'd just back up what I need and reformat the hard drive. Regardless of what you choose to do, I'd make sure that before you access whatever it was that you backed up, scan the flash drive (or whatever) that you copies the files to with an updated anti-virus first.

If you want to play it safe you can download the latest version of Ubuntu, burn it to a disk, and boot to the disk and run the live CD. It'll load Ubuntu without installing it and you'll be able to access your hard drives and grab any files you need to backup and copy them over to a flash drive or something.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

nah Im not going to remove it as its caused no problems since, its like i just need to nip back and grab that video and get the hell out of there, can i run ubuntu of a mem stick?

is that tool free? and if i use it will it unleash the beast again because no i didnt get rid of it

Umm okay. Be careful then.

I don't know if you can run it off a flash drive. However, you'd just need a CD to burn the Ubuntu image to.

Yes. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-ubuntu-rescue-remix-to-a-flash-drive/

what was the yes too? if i download this can i check my other files on the HDD

EDIT never mind, so i can run it off a mem stick :) im just worried that it will bring back the virus, or will this just let me browse what was on there?

I have a few questions.

Did you fix it?

1.)Can you see the partiton in Vista?

2.) Do you have a dual boot?

3.) If so does it boot to xp also? Be careful with this worms will jump!

4.) Was your xp Fat32 flie format or NTSF?!?!

5.) Can you in anyway see there is indeed a partition other than when you installed vista?

6.) Do you have a different rig running xp that you could put that HDD in just to nab the files? A worm wont jump from a data drive being accessed from a clean system unless you pull the virus with the data you copy and then run it.

U should be able to get it off that drive without and file recovery progz unless you did a format. If so then you will need what ever uitilty for the file system it was formated in. Xp was Fat32 or NTFS