Root Access

xCare

12:04 AM

Nice to meet you ChatBot! -shakes hand-

Journeyman Geek

Ello @xCare

xCare

Hello @JourneymanGeek. Know of anyone around right now that knows about fixing boot issues? just checking.

Journeyman Geek

off the top of my head.... no one's active. Just ask anyway

if someone knows chances are you'll get pinged

xCare

well, I'm looking for help with this:

2

Q: Recovering files when Windows 7 MBR has been corrupted

System Stats: Type: 64-Bit Desktop; OS: Windows 7 Premium; HD: Seagate Barracuda 750GB, S.M.A.R.T. Enabled. History: There is the complex situation I'm dealing with, I'll do my best to break it down: I've been up against some nasty guys in the gaming field and a few days ago, security soft...

Journeyman Geek

ah hah!

Step 1. Stick that sucker in a linux box and try to copy out what you can.

xCare

12:13 AM

it's a bit tacky tech issue I'm tackling, pardon the pun... would appreciate some backup if you know what I mean.

Journeyman Geek

Yeah

Amusingly you got the guy who did forensics in school so...

you're in luck

xCare

ah, yes I've tried that however... so far it won't read th edrive. Do you know of any Linux software that works like Recuva for Windows adn is able to access a Windows HD from Linux?

Journeyman Geek

won't read how?

Did you try manually force mounting the drive?

also, stop using mini tool

grab a proper linux livecd

xCare

if you look in the second picture on the thread, it shows the error, and I've tried deep scan even with recuva, but it shows Error on each sector

you mean Ubuntu?

Journeyman Geek

I'd use one of the lighter varients like xubuntu

xCare

12:16 AM

I got Zorin, Mint, Ubuntu, Tails, Knoppix and a dozen diagnostic OS's

Journeyman Geek

Since you're having errors in sectors, we might assume the drive itself is on the fritz, and try to image the drive with gnu ddrescue

xCare

ok let me explain from scratch, perhaps it'll give you a better idea of what I'm dealing with

Journeyman Geek

gimme 5, local birdlife is clamouring for their breakfast.

Do do. I'll be back by the time you are.

xCare

What happened is after I cleared out the RATs with Comodo, it started showing a corrupted MBR, but still booted.

So I ran Boot Repair Disk, and tried to fix it by the repair MBR option, and it said it did, but wrote a Windows 2000 MBR on it

Journeyman Geek

hm

testdisk MIGHT fix the mbr

but but I'd rather do a data recovery first

xCare

12:21 AM

When I went to restart, it showed me missing os message and wouldn't boot Windows

Journeyman Geek

the error your minitool is showing seems to indicate it dosen't read ntfs due to lack of drivers, which is wierd

xCare

One of the differences I noticed when running diagnostics was the drive went from less than 50% full to 100% full

2nd, the label C: was missing, like you see in the picture

Journeyman Geek

hmm

How do I put this

I don't trust minitool ;p

xCare

and when I look up the drive in regular form, it shows me a bunch of Linux folders (it does recognize the drive apparently, because the HD shows in the Boot Menu after I let it sit a bit)

Among the diags, I also got Runtime, System Rescue CD

Journeyman Geek

"regular form"? "linux folders"?

xCare

12:27 AM

yes, regular form = opening the drive normally from the linux folder browser

is there any way I can show you a live feed of what I'm seeing?

Journeyman Geek

screenshots might do

I suppose VNC might work but its going to suck long distance.

xCare

k.. I'll try.. there's no well known vidchat like Skype for Linux?

Journeyman Geek

Might be, but I'm half asleep, and posting an answer ;p

tried this? howtogeek.com/howto/32523/…

You'll need a windows 7 disk tho

xCare

ok, np. I'll try to take more pics. there's a chat room for this as well made this afternoon by mod Mokubai

checking that out

the room is here:

Discussion on question by xCare: Reco…

Imported from a comment discussion on superuser.com/questions/...

DragonLord

0

A: Will frequent Linux distro installation effect the life of Hard disk?

Very high workloads over extended periods of time can reduce the life of your hard drive. However, your usage is not high enough for this to be an issue. Hard drives have a rating called "annualized workload rate" which specifies how much I/O a hard drive is designed to handle per year; exceedi...

Journeyman Geek

12:34 AM

hmmmm

what kind of documents?

xCare

I tried that System recovery disk, but it won't list the OS, meaning it doesn't detect it.. The documents are late recordings I made of stuff these creeps were doing. I have most the data stored safely on offline drives but didn't have the time to transfer the last batch out yet before they struck.

chat logs, links and stuff like that

Journeyman Geek

so video?

ahh

xCare

that too

Journeyman Geek

I'd give photorec a shot

but its going to mangle the hell out of your filenames

xCare

tried that but it's command line and haven't got it to run yet. idc about filenames, as long as the data is recovered

if I use fixmbr from the W7 recovery disk, will it overwrite any files?

Journeyman Geek

12:47 AM

It shouldn't

xCare

ok, I will try that first then after attempting a backup with those tools you mentioned

I don't have Xubuntu on a USB, don't suppose running it from DVD will serve the purpose in this case since I can't install programs that way

Journeyman Geek

You can install stuff on the livedvd

xCare

k, let me try

DragonLord

1:34 AM

Mods, there's another fresh batch of flags to handle.

DragonLord

2:43 AM

Nov 23 '14 at 5:03, by Journeyman Geek

@DragonLord 1205 to catching up with me ;p

@JourneymanGeek: It's finally happened!

Oh my goodness... 😂

Journeyman Geek

It still amuses me that my people reached is bigger than the planned, maximum population of my country.

DragonLord

I knew this day would come.

Journeyman Geek

Now what? ;p

DragonLord

I'll just keep on flagging and reviewing as usual.

Journeyman Geek

heh. One sign you're doing too many reviews. You recognise the exact same question getting posted as an audit.

DragonLord

2:52 AM

A joke turned into a challenge for me, and I can't believe I've managed to complete it.

Journeyman Geek

And it really was a joke ;p

(I think I stopped counting once I hit the badge)

DragonLord

On the other extreme of the spectrum:

CRABOLO

6.2k 12 23 47

css html jquery javascript css3 html5 php

> 34,729 helpful flags

Then again, Super User gets nowhere near this much flaggable content.

Well, I'll just keep the flags coming.

Journeyman Geek

SO has more of everything

And don't forget, as you gain rep, there's less things to flag

all my current flags are for spam, since that's a quicker way to nuke a post, and feed the anti spam system

DragonLord

3:16 AM

Alright, I've got some work to do. See ya.

DragonLord

3:28 AM

Was wondering why I couldn't reach my Wi-Fi extender's control panel and why my Nexus 9 constantly goes offline when connected to the extender.

Turns out there was an IP address conflict. Router and extender were both trying to use 192.168.1.2.

The gateway IP address on the repeater was wrong as well.

Reassigned the extender to 192.168.1.3, set the gateway IP to the router's 192.168.1.2.

The connectivity issues should be gone.

Had to go into the router's control panel to temporarily set the IP to .3 and changed it back to .2 when done.

Journeyman Geek

3:45 AM

shouldn't your router typically be on .1 ?

DragonLord

The change was made due to the fact that my DSL modem (before it was put in bridge mode) used .1

Now that the router does all the routing, there's nothing on .1. The IP addresses have been left unchanged to reduce the likelihood of a future conflict.

I forgot to reconfigure the extender after I made those networking changes, leaving me with a borked extender where hitting mywifiext.net would lead to NETGEAR's "Oops!" page on the Internet rather than the extender's control panel.

Discussion on question by xCare: Reco…

Transcript for