MBR virus + DDO aargh!

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by quorumangelorum, Aug 31, 2008.

  1. quorumangelorum

    quorumangelorum Private E-2

    Hello,

    Night before last I got a master boot virus. I have a seagate 160-gig HD which I had partitioned into two 80-gig drives; one was the system drive and one just for storage. Because I was having the 30-gig capacity limitation issue, I used seagate's software to put a dynamic drive overlay on it.

    After the virus hit, I used XP's recovery console, and used the fixboot command without realizing that it would screw up the DDO. Now of course it still won't boot, so I've put it as a slave to another drive w/ a clean install of XP. Right now, my system is seeing it as an empty 10-gig drive.

    I put most of the really important stuff on the storage half of the drive, thinking I was keeping it safer from boot viruses. But now I can't get any data recovery software to even see the second drive. I have so much really irreplaceable stuff on this drive (I'm a writer) -- is there any solution?

    With adequate instructions, I can follow a complicated procedure. Heh.

    Thanks!
     
  2. chaslang

    chaslang MajorGeeks Admin - Master Malware Expert Staff Member

    This is really an issue that would be better suited for the Hardware or Software Forum now. I will move this thread to Hardware for you. The olnly idea I have is to use Seagates software again. However I'm not sure this will allow you to recover the data.
     

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