cdbenaiah@trillium.uwaterloo.ca (02/09/91)
Help!!! I think I was savaged by a virus/trojan/nasty type of thing. My hard drive (120 MB PS/2 ESDI drive) has been savaged. It no longer is recognized at boot up. Apparently this virus thing or whatever wrote over the partition table. I ran fdisk and set up the original partition, and now it recognizes my hard drive, but when I try to read C: it says 'Invalid media type drive C'. I can run Norton Utilities in maintenance mode, and it will read the info on the disk, but otherwise I can't read it. When I run the technical information section of norton it says my hard drive is a 360K drive :-(. What can I do? Am I toast forever, or is the data/directories recoverable? I was running FRECOVER from norton before it bombed, will this help? Can Norton help? Do I need something else like MACE utilities (I have heard they can recover from this)? The way I see it is the nasty tried to write its boot sector over the hard drive, thus making it think it is a 360K floppy and just die. What are my chances of data recovery here? Can anyone recommend a program to help, or better yet, send me one??? All help appreciated! Please send mail right away - I need help quickly!!! Thanks in advance...