[Problem] Almost half of Drive C disappeared

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Jeffy
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[Problem] Almost half of Drive C disappeared

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I downloaded andyroid, it's supposed to emulate android os. It comes with oracle virtual box.
I installed it all and somehow it gave an error. Suddenly my programs won't run so I restarted.
After restarting, the first thing I noticed is the wallpaper disappeared, and all items on my desktop disappeared.
I checked drive c and many files and programs are gone, and many programs that are still there have so many files missing.
My drive c which had 20gb of space remaining before, now have 50gb of space remaining. So at least 30gb worth of files disappeared.
I tried system restore but even that doesn't work. At this point I don't think it's possible to get back all that I lost.

But I need to recover at least some of the files on my desktop as they are very important, is it doable?
If not I will most likely just complete reformat my pc since I've been wanting to do that in awhile.
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Re: [Problem] Almost half of Drive C disappeared

Post by mpack »

If you downloaded something other than the official distribution from this site then you need to get support from wherever you did download VirtualBox from. For all I know you downloaded some trojan.
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Re: [Problem] Almost half of Drive C disappeared

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