[pchelpers] Re: magi star virus help

Depends on the extent of the damage. Norton Disk Doctor could recover a
FAT in FAT16 systems. Modern tools are Windows based, so to begin with
you probably need to put the drive into another machine as a secondary
master. This way you can apply repair tools to it. Usually, there are 2
copies of the FAT. Recovery depends on having the second one intact. If
it isn't, you have to re-partition and format again to set it up.

This approach also helps prevent virus contamination because of not
attempting to boot from the infected drive.

Jonathan Setcer wrote:
> 
> My Cong. S.O. got the Magi Star virus (w32.magistar.39921@mm).
> 
> Among other things it deleted his FAT.  He 'had' win2000 with FAT 32.
> 
> When I attempt to access the hard drive by any means available to me
> it
> says: "no partition" ; "no defined partition"; "not initilized"; and
> stuff
> like that.
> 
> Fdisk said no partition.  Windows 2000 install showed the whole hard
> drive
> and said that the hard drive appears to be empty. if it use to have a
> operating system it has been erased.
> 
> Is there a utility that can recover any of the files on his Hdd
> without the
> FAT?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Agape & 73,  J. Setcer,  N5QJ

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