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Re: my invalidated NTFS partition

I don't know what stepped on my bootsector. Beginning with Windoze Vista, I used utorrent to get the revised v7.4.0 iso from the link at http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de I burned the English version of the iso to DVD. At this point, the drive was still working since the iso came from that drive. I then booted to the v7.4.0 DVD. I used the flash-knoppix menu item to put it on the USB stick. I then booted from the USB stick. I did some simple checks to make sure knoppix was working ok. I vaguely think I noticed that the 2 TB drive didn't show up at this point, but I'm not certain of that. I used IceWeasel to visit a couple of sites I use regulary just to make sure it worked. When I rebooted Vista, the drive wasn't there. This was obvious immediately since I have most of my Windoze data directories moved to that drive.
I don't think there was any hibernation involved. The USB stick booted and appeared to work fine with the very limited testing I did. Since v7.4.0 was the change when the problem manifested, I used v7.0.5 and Windoze to do all the work trying to identify and fix the problem. I haven't gotten around to trying v7.4 again. When I do, it will be on a non-essential computer. Everything still seems to be back to normal. 

Some sort of Windoze malware is a possibility, but Norton found none.
I suppose that some sort of Linux malware is another possibility. That seems unlikely though. There was a very small window for it to get in. Klaus suggested that I might have made an input error. I can't say it is impossible, but I don't think that is it. 
I think it is a good sign that we haven't seen any more incidents like this.

Thank you for trying to help.


Jim
P.S. I suppose that I should say that it isn't my objective to blame anyone in this. I really appreciate all the work Klaus has put in. I would like to prevent this happening again to anyone.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ilari Halminen" <ilari2000-palsta@yahoo.co.uk> 
To: <debian-knoppix@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 2:13 AM
Subject: Re: my invalidated NTFS partition



Well, now there is a question what messed partions?
As the first question do use something like hibernation, when you close your 
computer? Or do you shutdown correctly?
I do not really know, but It comes in mind that it was a Windows virus that caused all that. At least some of those use bootsector for loading to memory, 
and using Knoppix could makes those crazy.

I would also know, could you boot to Knoppix from that USB stick? If that
works perfect, then you cannot give wrong target place.

Ilari H

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After almost three weeks of trying various tools, etc., I've finally managed to repair the damaged boot sector. Thank you very much to to Klaus and Costakis for trying to help. None of the linux tools I tried worked. Manually trying to fix the partition table didn't work either. Eventually, I found a Windows tool that fixed it in place. It appears that I have everthing back to normal 
with all my files and data intact.


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