Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:27:48 -0700 | From | Ian Eure <> | Subject | Re: WAY OT--Crisis...virus! Need help |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > 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. > > If you set one partition for the whole disk, that should let you back up the > first partition you had at least. It may also let you know a size so you can > hunt the next one > It is not impossible (although time consuming) to manually recover your partitions. I had a problem with a Linux 2.0.30 box a while back (when 2.0.30 was the latest and greatest) and I had lost my partition table, had no backup,and only a vague idea what the grometries should be. What I found is that if you have a rescue disk, you can start with the first partition, and guess. Then either mount it read-only and cat/cp every file to /dev/null to check for errors or e2fsck -f -n; if you get errors, try again. :)
Not very fun, but it is useful at (desprate) times. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ian Eure <ieure@crosssound.narrows.com> | | Network Administrator, Cross Sound Appraisal Company | | | | "Believe it or not, there's more to being a sysadmin than rabid | | technophilia." --Annalee Newitz, "Invisible Heroes" | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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