Virus attack
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.
At this point the data on the drives is a loss, no? Time to zero the drives.
Lifes a bitch. Makes you just wish we stuck to stone tablets sometimes doesn’t it? Then, of course, you realize you have unlimited access to pr0n and things don’t seem as bad as all that.
Yeah, I think I’m over the emotional response part. I’ll be moving into denial later today, as I try to restore partition tables and FATs frantically.
I’ll end up just killing the first partition and making a new one. Hopefully the other partitions are intact… I don’t back up my 70 GB of media (except for compressed versions of all the music for my iRiver, which isn’t bad)... but I might after this