On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 10:15:28PM +0530, shyamk @ eth . net wrote:
> I use a dual-boot Win98 - RH Linux machine , on a LAN of Win-
> doze machines. When my machine was booted to Win98, my friend
> whom I can trust, copied a folder into my machine
Do we understand that your box was a network-neighbourhood type
of link, and running Win-9x when he transferred the folder ?
> his machine runs the latest version of Norton Anti-Virus 2000
> .. I mean that he downloads the latest updates). We subseque-
> ntly shutdown our machines, and packed off for the day. The
> next morning when we switched on my box , only the Win drives
> C: and D: can be seen. E: and F: are missing !
IOW, you are booting normally into Win-9x ? How do you go to
Linux ? Through loadlin or boot floppies ? If LILO is installed
on MBR it implies that you have defaulted to Win-9x as the main
OS. If LILO is on MBR, and the thing boots, there is no boot
sector virus.
>
> I boot to Linux and cfdisk-ed and got the following error
> message from cfdisk :
>
> FATAL ERROR : Bad Logical partition 9: Partition ends before
> sector 0. Press any key to exit cfdisk ....
>
To me this appears to be an error of Extended-logical parti-
tion boundary (conflict) on an 0F type of extended partition,
induced by inappropriate write action ... but the information
furnished is inadequate to confirm.
Please post an output of fdisk -l ... partitioning utils like
cfdisk and disk-druid, and inadequate for such tasks.
This is very unlikely to be a boot sector virus problem. The
actual virus is M$ itself in leaving so many weaknesses in
its basic partitioning, installation .... and you name it !
Hope this re-assures you.
Bish
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