Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: WAY OT--Crisis...virus! Need help | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:05:11 +0100 | From | Scott Manley <> |
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> > Seeing the same thing with two of my Win95 boxes and a friend's computer (we > > don't even share files between ourselves). It wipes out the partition table. > > ICK! Where did it come from, and is there any way to recover the data? > > Not easily. If you know roughly where things line up you can hunt for the > unix superblocks and FAT tables. Keeping a copy of your partition tables > on postits taped to the case isnt a bad idea. Its a bit late for that > though.
I did this once... somehow Lose95 conspired to wipe my partition table.... I knew that my linux partition was the last one on teh disk so I boted a rescue disk and used hexdump /dev/hda | more to serach for the ext2fs superblocks and get the sizes from teh correct field.
I couldn';t be bothered with that kind of effor for my VFAT filesystem though ...
It is possible anyway...
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