wierd happenings

GaryG · Nov 2, 2009

I have no idea where this should have been posted, but it involves what I suspect might be something nasty running loose.
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pc 1: (windows/xp pc)
primary master is dead

pc 2: (windows/xp pc)
keyboard is non-functional

Took primary master from pc2 and connected to pc1 as primary master
now, pc1's keyboard was non-functional and the primary master was still dead

so now keyboards on both pc1 and pc2 were non-functional

re-installed pc2's original primary-master; now this hd was dead on this pc

using an ide-2-usb interface, connected pc2's now dead hard drive
to my windows laptop. Device was not recognized.

booted windows/xp laptop using system-rescue-cd, and executed test-disk.
test-disk did find the non-functional hd and showed that it
contained 2 partitions both starting and ending at the same place;

scanned the pc with test-disk, and it found a physical partition, and an extended partition containing a logical partition. wrote this info back to hd and replaced the hd's mbr;

Then booted laptop to windows and the ide-2-usb connected hd was recognized and accessable.

Am I looking at a bios of boot sector virus, or have I perhaps been hallucinating

Gary

(tomorow I plan to give pc1's dead hd the test-disk treatment)

TimW · Nov 6, 2009

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