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@Mega Man X
Glad you got your system back and that too with no additional expenses. What abt the mobo you bought, well send it back and claim refund I am gonna stick with the problem some more time, its not that urgent and I am a firm believer of "if you stick with the problem long enough, you will know/find the solution" thing. Its just a matter of timing i sometimes feel that way. Anyway I am gonna keep trying and follow your advice with zero filling once i am sure i have the data i want recovered. About the M$ thing, its your personal thing and I will respect your feelings, personally i hate M$ and Windoze. As i have said repeatedly I have begun to even hate watching it boot. then that's just me. take care mate.
i'm back after 2 days of headaches...oh poor prozac, why would you hate something like M$, i just had two wonderful days of gettin rid of a trojan that turned into 12 at last count...think i fixed it...got on yesterday for a while...but with ubuntu...my poor win system...now wheres that nice game i was playing....
Thats probably why i only use it when i get a copy with a new pc, and even then its not always installed...if i got some huge amount of cost off the pc by not having ms come with it, then i probably would never have a copy...
anyway, back to you guys having fun with your M/B problems...
what have you done to your pc prozac...i have read some of your posts, but bring me up to your current issues..oh and use very simple words, i got a flu or something and my head feels like it weighs a tonne...
ps, forgot....hey mega_man_x...was your problem the bios issue...
its quite a critical one with ms, as it uses bios when its running unlike linux...
please ensure you have set the jumpers to protect your bios once you have it set up...
also if somebody knows a software which loads at boottime (w/o the need for an os) and can do a sector-by-sector read of data ignoring read-errors and writing it to some other disk. it would be helpful. some data recovery centers here in my place can recover 99% of the data (or so they claim) but they charge high fees. I would like to do the same thing myself. any recommendations guys?
what you need to do this a programme called "post" but i have not got a copy and last i heard there is none supported anymore as few people repair motherboards now...another things is that a post programme wont detect the bios faults that easily...post will do a lot of things including hardware fault detection and harddrive detection, depending on the version and what it supports...but as i said, i havent seen a copy for about 5 years now and dont have a copy myself...
the image i build with dd was useless, couldn't burn it in cd, nero didn't recognized it-so my brother says. actually i am so rubbed in my job(s) i don't have time to fix my own brother computer. i get to home so tired after hopping through 3 diff. jobs i just eat my dinner and fall in my bed, sleep like a log. phew! what a life i am living. i am open to suggestions regarding the recovery. let me put it out afresh.
Situation:
MAXTOR D540X-4K 40GIG HDD
/dev/hda1 10GIG NTFS * is the partition i need to recover (it is standard windows C: )
/dev/hda5 20GIG NTFS is the other partition i need to recover (standard windows d: )
What i have tried so far:
booted slack10.2 from other hdd and the MAXTOR hdd as secondary hdd. loaded ntfs module, mounted /dev/hda5 and copied all data.
while trying to mount /dev/hda1 it gives
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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda2,
missing codepage or other error
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
which resulted in a recovered.img file of size 496M. Mind it /dev/hda1 is 10G and the .img file is only 496M. I am confused why so small file size.
I haven't done anymore experimenting than that. I need to recover the pictures and movie file specially as they are from my brother wedding (you can guess why he insists on recovering, personally i have no sentiments over pictures and movies files )
any suggestions?
p.s: after i have recoverd the files succesfully i intend to try out Mega Man X suggestion of zero refilling. I sincerely hope it works and revives the drive to useable.
Hi there wraithe. Good question. I'm still not sure if my problem was the bios only. If I would have to blame something, it would be Valve ^^. I never had any problems like this with any game before. My PC is working just fine now. Sometimes, when I power it on, the BIOS does not show my processor type and speed, but other than that, I've not had any issues at all yet. Been playing Flight Gear perfectly, now installing NWN and Warcraft 3 on Ubuntu. But you know, since I was in Windows, the possibility of being infected by a virus is very high and it is something I often think about, especially since HL2 downloads a lot of files from servers, not only crappy sounds stolen from other games (this is just a guess, of course). Whatever happened and how it truly got fixed still remains a mystery for me.
@prozac
Thanks for the tip. This friday I'm free, so I will try to return my mobo and see if I can get the money back. I would be really happy to get my 60 bucks back. If I can't, I hope that I can at least exchange for something else, like a HD or something else. I'm sorry to hear your backup did not work. As you can see, I was not good at finding a solution to my problem, so I went ahead and formatted the HD ^_^. I hope you can manage it though. Good luck!
Side note:
By the way (a bit unconnected as well), so far, everything works so flawlessly in Ubuntu Dapper that I've never experienced with any other distribution. Basically, everything works 100% and it's so damn solid. The only thing not working is my webcam on aMSN. However, this webcam works fine when running camstream, so I believe it either does not work in aMSN yet or it is just a small bug. Even wine is working perfectly and I got the only Windows application I needed: Rosetta Stone Korean language. Windows is also installed, but I won't ever touch it unless I have too...
Oh well, Viva Linux ^_^
Last edited by Mega Man X; 06-21-2006 at 01:13 AM.
@wraithe, Mega Man X
I too have been thinking as whether any virus could place itself in bootsector and do things like that. I have certainly heard of bootsector viruses but haven't encountered any of it yet-so i don't know how they operate. I am definately doing some research over it.
@wraithe
it would be helpful if you could remember where you got it from atleast (post). i was thinking how data recovery centers operate. does anybody knows?
@all
any info on 'dd' would be helpful. not that i am not googling myself. any special tips or tricks that LQ members know.
@wraithe, Mega Man X
I too have been thinking as whether any virus could place itself in bootsector and do things like that. I have certainly heard of bootsector viruses but haven't encountered any of it yet-so i don't know how they operate. I am definately doing some research over it.
You wont find very many. They're all but dead. It was usually used on floppies, a now obsolete technology. And harddrive boot-sector viruses have been effectively squashed by bios boot sector protection.
Oh Prozac, the last version of post i think was 3.4...but like i said its like trying to remember the passenger list for the titanic..(and dont any of you smart allec's out there say anything to that)...
Worse part is i have the flu right now, so having to deal with a virus of my own...and my son is sick too, so no school for him either....I'll try doing a search and if i can remember an old friends number, he may have a better memory than me,...
Dont forget, i am suffering oldtimers....
and DarkVaderman, what planet you on....the word post is not limited to a m/b bios test in the form of inbuilt....it actually was the name to several different programmes, but people seem to think they invented things...it also applies to a support for a fence or a roof...and i'm sure my Mum has lots that need digging in on her farm, want to see one first hand....
@slantoflight
BIOS bootsector virus protection is ON and from what I have read so far, this is either a failing harddrive or a very-very messed up partition table. The $MFT is squashed I think.
@wraithe
I appericiate your efforts.
FLU? get rid of it quickly. I am allergic to flu (if i remember correctly). Do you think it can spread through forums? I better run fast!
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Dont forget, i am suffering oldtimers....
I am so afraid of getting old. I am 25 and already feel like I am an old person when people around me bash there own responsibities to me (i have loads of it rtnow!). Heck! I am just a kid ya' know.
Sorry to hear abt your son. But My sympathies are with you rather than your son, since you will be the one who will wake nights and see to it that you do every possible damn thing to make him get well fast. One advice though, If your son is like me he may very well be making things up to avoid school. And don't you ever underestimate today's kids (we are a lot smarter than you have possibly imagined ever). The acting will be so realistic, you will completely mesmerized to think and make anything out of it.
OMG, this post is going too out of league. anyway, I will go to the point.
@all
I found this Software, It says it can recover any kind of disaster struck ntfs partition. Reading from it manual, it seems, it needs a working primary partition as main and the disaster struck drive as secondary/slave. Hell, the last time i tried this configuration, windows couldn't even boot.
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I am gonna stick with the problem some more time, its not that urgent and I am a firm believer of "if you stick with the problem long enough, you will know/find the solution" thing. Its just a matter of timing i sometimes feel that way. Anyway I am gonna keep trying and follow your advice with zero filling once i am sure i have the data i want recovered. About the M$ thing, its your personal thing and I will respect your feelings, personally i hate M$ and Windoze. As i have said repeatedly I have begun to even hate watching it boot. then that's just me. take care mate.
Thats probably why i only use it when i get a copy with a new pc, and even then its not always installed...if i got some huge amount of cost off the pc by not having ms come with it, then i probably would never have a copy...
