on Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:19:19AM -0500, Bill Benedetto (bbenedetto@goodyear.com) wrote:
> Hello.
>
> This isn't a Debian question, per se, but the depth of knowledge
> on this mailing list is quite humbling.
>
> I have an XP system that had a trojan file/program that I
> couldn't delete from Windoze. So I booted Knoppix and when
> Knoppix mounted the local filesystem, it mounted it read-only.
> Since I wanted to rename that trojan, I remounted the ntfs as
> read-write:
>
> # mount -o remount,ro /mnt/hda2
No you didn't. 'ro' is 'read-only'.
> The /mnt/hda2 filesystem was fine but it still wouldn't let me
> rename the trojan.
>
> So I rebooted the system (with the intention of going back into
> Windoze) but I get a disk error and so Windoze won't come up. I
> get this when the system tries to boot Windoze:
>
> A disk read error occurred
> Press Ctrl Alt Del to restart
>
> So I put rebooted Knoppix again and now Knoppix boots fine but it
> won't let me mount /dev/hda2. I don't have the exact message in
> front of me but basically it said that the filesystem was corrupt
> or that there was a bad boot block.
>
> I have a disk image from about 2 months ago and can restore that
> - but I'd REALLY like the opportunity to get some data off of
> this disk before I wipe it. My family has some recent stuff on
> there that I'd like to be able to recover.
>
> Does anyone have any guidance for me for making the filesystem
> mountable and/or bootable? If I can mount it from Knoppix I know
> that I can copy the data elsewhere before I restore the disk
> image.
Backups.
Peace.
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