Messages in this thread | | | From | Oleg Kibirev <> | Subject | Re: Virus 'protection' departitionment | Date | Wed, 7 Aug 1996 15:06:45 -0700 (PDT) |
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> I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, if you have a better I'd > love to know...
> I have an intel PC, IDE, 2 drives, linux is on the second, LIlo is > on the first on MBR.
> I just ran f-prot virus protection(in dos) and it said it found and > cleaned the ripper virus on my second drive, the one with a dos, linux swap, > and ext-2 partition. It decided I really had one huge dos partition and > wrote that on my MBR. Does anyone know any way to rewrite the MBR with the > correct information witout losing all the data on my drive?
> BTW, I know the data is still there because my kernel is on that > drive and lilo can still run it, but of course it can't mount root, cause > the file system info is wrong in the MBR.
> Any help, even just a better place to ask, would be apreciatd. Oh, > f-prot will not return my MBR to its pre-'cleaned' status itself, I checked > that already.
If you remember the sizes of your partitions, you can boot from one of Linux rescue floppies (sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/recovery) and use fdisk to put your partitions back - it will modify only MBR, not data, so if you need several tries it's Ok.
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