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| 51072 | 2002-05-27 09:43:00 | Just removed 514 copies of a virus from a PC, and now it's clean. But, the D: partition has disappeared. FDISK seems to know it's there but Windows sure doesn't. FDISK doesn't know what format it is, and hasn't assigned a drive letter. Running Win98 so can't use NT tools. I am buggered if I know what do. It was there before. Any ideas? robo. |
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| 51073 | 2002-05-27 12:12:00 | If you have another partition or a separate hard drive fom the one containing drive D (otherwise acquire another hard drive) purchase Easy Recovery Professional. Install, run, recover the data and then recreate the missing partition, and shift the data back. Also consider implementing regular backups if the data is essesntial. |
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| 51074 | 2002-05-27 13:07:00 | It sounds as though your PC has been hit by a major virus. Running Windows 98 if FDISK cannot see it as a FAT or FAT32 you might as well delete any non-dos partitions and start again with a fresh FAT32 partition. If Win98 cannot see it as a valid FAT or FAT32 I cant see some other product being able to recover it. |
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| 51075 | 2002-05-27 13:08:00 | It sounds as though your PC has been hit by a major virus. Running Windows 98 if FDISK cannot see it as a FAT or FAT32 you might as well delete any non-dos partitions and start again with a fresh FAT32 partition. If Win98 cannot see it as a valid FAT or FAT32 I cant see some other product being able to recover it. |
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| 51076 | 2002-05-28 01:32:00 | Not my machine, not sure how good the backups are. I think the damage was done when I installed NAV to remove virus. It then rebooted and asked about boot sector and did I want to inoculate etc. I think I chose inoculate and that is what did the damage. NAV was actually running off the D: partition, so now that is gone too. Am wading through downloadable disk utils to see if any look promising. The partition is there, just doesn't have a drive letter associated with it. robo. |
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| 51077 | 2002-05-28 04:51:00 | If its type is not set to a valid MS type, MS won't use it. MS OSs won't even see it. What you need is a partition editor like the Linux fdisk, which can just change the type of a partition without damaging anything else. I haven't used ranish, but it is (1) free, and (2) well recommended, so it might be worth a try. The donumentation will tell you if it can do this. |
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| 51078 | 2002-05-28 05:20:00 | Its an EXT DOS partition, just doesn't have a drive letter in FDISK. robo. |
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| 51079 | 2002-05-28 08:31:00 | Some viruses move the mbr to a different sector so some may well do the same for volume boot sectors. If you have Norton Utilities on a different partition it might be worth seeing if that can detect the missing partition or it may be able to look along the disc beyond C:. If you can view the sector contents you may find that the vbs has been corrupted or moved from sector 0 on its track. In the latter case if you can find its new location just copy it back. | Guest (0) | ||
| 51080 | 2002-05-28 09:19:00 | Just wondering if I should mention the /mbr switch...? | Guest (0) | ||
| 51081 | 2002-05-29 04:42:00 | Again, MS's FDISK is *destructive*, so you can't use it to create 'a' logical partition inside the extended one. It would be worth trying ranish on to make one. It's unlikely to make matters worse (especially if you RTM), but FDISK is *guaranteed* to lose the contents of the partition. | Guest (0) | ||
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