mstechca
New Member
It isn't my PC, it is my MOM's PC.
Every time I want to use the internet, I use her PC because it is the one closest to the phone line. Yes, I use Dial-up.
Here is how it all started.
On April 26th, I just flicked the computer on, and I get a B.S.O.D. with the error message "A fatal exception occurred at ....." and the file involved was ESDI_506.PDR. As soon as I restarted the computer, the hard drive was unbootable.
so I took another hard drive (which I am using now), because it is bootable, AND because I think it is the w95.cih that hit the computer, I immediately changed the date before starting windows.
I have done research on the internet, and it does turn out to be the w95.cih virus, because it hits computers on the 26th of April.
Now, I am trying to recover files. Tiramisu for Dos seemed to do a good job, BUT it didn't recover the most important file to my MOM, which is a 90 page word 97 document.
So I began searching through the affected hard drive sector through sector with norton's Diskedit, and it seems that the 90 page document is divided into chunks, at different clusters.
The hard drive uses a FAT-16 filesystem, which makes FIX-CIH unusable on the hard drive.
The internet claims the first MB of the affected hard drive is overwritten with random data.
So this means I cannot access the drive using an operating system.
What could make life easier is if someone could guide me to reading a file on a FAT-16 drive when the first MB is damaged.
I am willing to write a program that can piece all the document together, but I can't unless I knew the filesystem.
and no, this drive cannot be accessed using a drive letter.
Every time I want to use the internet, I use her PC because it is the one closest to the phone line. Yes, I use Dial-up.
Here is how it all started.
On April 26th, I just flicked the computer on, and I get a B.S.O.D. with the error message "A fatal exception occurred at ....." and the file involved was ESDI_506.PDR. As soon as I restarted the computer, the hard drive was unbootable.
so I took another hard drive (which I am using now), because it is bootable, AND because I think it is the w95.cih that hit the computer, I immediately changed the date before starting windows.
I have done research on the internet, and it does turn out to be the w95.cih virus, because it hits computers on the 26th of April.
Now, I am trying to recover files. Tiramisu for Dos seemed to do a good job, BUT it didn't recover the most important file to my MOM, which is a 90 page word 97 document.
So I began searching through the affected hard drive sector through sector with norton's Diskedit, and it seems that the 90 page document is divided into chunks, at different clusters.
The hard drive uses a FAT-16 filesystem, which makes FIX-CIH unusable on the hard drive.
The internet claims the first MB of the affected hard drive is overwritten with random data.
So this means I cannot access the drive using an operating system.
What could make life easier is if someone could guide me to reading a file on a FAT-16 drive when the first MB is damaged.
I am willing to write a program that can piece all the document together, but I can't unless I knew the filesystem.
and no, this drive cannot be accessed using a drive letter.