>
> Now this may seem wierd but its true. I stayed up until the early morning on
> sunday (14th)
> and then turned off my computer and went to breakfast when I came back the
> whole harddrive was gone, I checked some more and found random impossibly
> sized partitions had been created, I suspect a virus, why did I have boot
> windows ? arrg! I had backed up windows onto 4 cd's but alas linux is
> completely gone, 4 months of work. What a tragedy.
While I maintain that booting Windows deserves punishment, I agree that this
is probably too tough a sentence. Usually running Windows should be enough
punishment by itself.
Are you sure everything is lost? - If just the partition-table had been
altered, the data in the partitions would not be messed up yet. In this case
you may rewrite the old partitiontable to fix the system. In case you don't
know, what it was like, you can start with your first partition, guess its
size, run e2fsck to tell you what the actual size is, continue with the
second partition and so on ...
Good luck!
Rolf
Rolf Mueller rolf.mueller@yale.edu
Intelligent Sensors Lab, EE Dept.
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8284
Phone 203 432 4297 Fax 203 432 7769