Re: HELP! partition table messed up -- (DOS okay but linux is not!)
On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Arup Mukherjee wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm having a problem that appears to be the inverse of what
> some people here have had before. The partition tables on BOTH my
> disks, as linux sees them, are screwed up. However, if you boot dos or
> windows 95 from the hard disks (via lilo, which still works), both dos
> and w95 still have an accurate idea of the partition information and
> work fine. I guess they're using a copy of the partition table as
> opposed to the real thing.
This is VERY typical of a boot sector virus, you should get a fprot or
some other scanner and sweep your MBR from a clean boot floppy. I had
exactly the same symptoms on one of my computers when I had the Monkey
virus.
Jason
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