Re: my invalidated NTFS partition
Hello Jim,
Can you please send me a snapshot of the first sectors of both, the Disks absolute start and partition start (if it's still partitioned)? About 4MB of data for each may be sufficient for finding out what happened, or if the NTFS signature is missing.
If your disk shows as /dev/sdb in /proc/partitions, the command would be:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=sdb.img bs=1M count=4
and
dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=sdb1.img bs=1M count=4
Send me the data (sdb.img,sdb1.img) via email (a zip or tar.gz archive may save some bandwidth).
There may be an issus with some faulty hd firmware concerning boot of _any_ other Os than the vendor-installed one unrelated to flash-knoppix which I rememeber from reading an article, which would be a warranty case for your disk because it's likely to happen again even when booting a different windows version.
Though I don't think the problem is knoppix- or Linux-related yet, I'm of course interested in finding cause a a possible fix for such disks.
And: Last week, we found one flash drive that, when plugged in with the OS running, causes a reset of the USB port and all attached devices were renumbered. When this happens _during_ a flash-knoppix session, it could explain how a wrong disk gets repartitioned. I'm afraid that such a problem with faulty hardware can neither be detected in advance, nor getting fixed by software alone.
Regards
-Klaus
On 1. September 2014 05:21:41 MESZ, Jim Pritchett <jpritchett1@charter.net> wrote:
> 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
> >
> > -----
> >
> > 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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