[NTLUG:Discuss] HD problems from a Windows machine

[Russ]

On 12/20/05, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
> Russ wrote:
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> >Thanks for the reply,


> If there was something that attacked it had to get control of the CPU
> somehow.  If it's Windows-specific malware then it's not going to run on
> Linux.

I've done this once before on a NTFS formatted HD, so I was really
surprised to see the HD becoming active when 'noswap' was specified
during the Linux boot.

Someone else replied, off the list, saying that possibly the HD was
defective already.  He said that where he worked they put the HD's in
the freezer for a while.  Now he might be pulling my leg but it may
also be a 'trick of the trade' that might help.

> besides, unless the good HD is FAT, the default NTFS support for
> Knoppix is read-only.  Worst case, go buy a small/cheap used drive for
> the work.

I've got an old 8 mB HD.  It happens to be in the PC I'm trying to
use.  Your advice is to mount the HD from the infected machine as the
secondary and the smaller HD (perhaps running Ubuntu, Red Hat or Suse)
as the primary, then do the data transfer?

If that's what it takes, I could do it but my friend says the only
important data is on five or six small Microsoft Word files.  I
thought doing a copy to a floppy would work.
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Russ