Archive for June 14th, 2005
Virus attack
Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
My mom’s computer froze and wouldn’t boot today, so of course, I was sent in to try to fix it. I tried fixing the MBR, running scandisk, accessing from knoppix, etc. Nothing worked. It even crashed knoppix.
Being the genius that I am, I though I’d put it as slave in my desktop.
Genius. I now have 2 dead hard drives.
They might still be recoverable. I’m looking in the direction of the CIH virus… it’s the only one I’ve found with effects like that. I’ll see what I can do.
Fortunately, I keep diligent backups, so this doesn’t affect my data much. Nor zenphoto. No worries. And I have a laptop, so I can still work. I just hope my music and video library on the 2nd partition is okay…
It friggin pisses me off though!! Ahhrrrrgh!
Update: The data on my is completely intact, so it’s just a matter of rebuilding partition tables. I’m so relieved. So very relieved. Thank you Knoppix!
Another Update: It wasn’t actually a virus, but a hard drive logic board failure. See my post on how I got the data above. And my hard disk is perfectly fine, must have just been confused.