From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 21:05:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B9A16A4D1 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:05:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB92843DDE for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 20:59:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from david.robillard@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so236549uge for ; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:59:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=hRZch2HvRPKF66IuXQdzFMexBlnVVee9ew9C+I2V2XoPw/QnWt29Qj/97Oa13S8kAbZlgDIgJZMlRZOjdUtnaUsR1/iYzdIByq/7JLsudk4SVVKWNolxIE8ZKz4WM1ExtnDkILN5IzYBPdbsKz/vahEEIi5BcOLm3eR4BYHJWis= Received: by 10.67.20.3 with SMTP id x3mr1498976ugi.1165437083206; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:31:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.105.15 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:31:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <226ae0c60612061231i3f5a93actc6645034be5783b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:31:23 -0500 From: "David Robillard" To: "Erik Norgaard" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Which live CD for recovery X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:05:30 -0000 > Which live CD is recommended for recovery? What I'd like is to have as > many disk analysis tools at hand just in case. There are a lot to choose from, as you can see from this list: http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php > I believe one of two things has happened: the anti virus placed a system > file in the vault, or running windows update the "genuine windows > disadvantage tool" disabled the system because it may have been pirate > (don't know). AFAIK the Windows Genuine Advantage never prevents you from booting your machine. It will annoy you with pop-ups about your license (or lack of it). Fortunately, you can disable the pop-ups. Keep in mind that a non-legit Windows machine can only perform the Security updates, but cannot perform the other Windows Updates. This can be confusing for a technologically challenged user. > So, I need to recover data to some other machine, and then see if I can > recover the system file without a full reinstall. Do you have a USB drive? Can you mount it on the crippled Windows Box? If so, then I would suggest that you backup the user's data, format the crippled box's disk drive and do a clean Windows install. After all, there probably was a virus on this box. Are you sure you want to take chances? Good luck, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122