[NTLUG:Discuss] HD problems from a Windows machine

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Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Russ wrote:
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>> On 12/20/05, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
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>>> Russ wrote:
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>>>> Thanks for the reply,
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>> 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?
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>> 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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> Copying to the HD is an option but I was under the impression that you 
> were wanting a good HD other than the infected one because you were 
> concerned that the infected HD was causing Knoppix to choke.  I don't 
> know anything about the freezer bit but worth a try.  It could 
> accomplish one thing I know of: cause the electronics on the HD to be 
> cool enough to work, I had a laptop that would lock up at room 
> temperature but would work for a while after placing it in the 
> refrigerator.  If you try this and it works grab the data while you can 
> - the laptop gradually became totally non-functional...
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The trick with the freezer is mainly to free up stuck bearings by making 
the metal contract, thereby giving a smaller axel.

dont put a whole sys in the freezer
the condensation that forms could be problematic