At 01:29 PM 1/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 05:57:41PM +0000, Richard Baker wrote:> My sister just switched on her Windows PC and it went into ScanDisk. > Being impatient, she selected "Exit" and then it popped up a screen > saying that her Windows license has been revoked and she's in > violation of the DMCA. Whenever we try booting it does the same. She > can't find the Packard Bell recovery CD that came with the machine > and doesn't have a Win98 install CD. Is there anything she can do to > restore the previous state of the machine? That depends on what caused the Scandisk run in the first place. Scandisk will run if it detects that the machine was not "shut down properly" or if some other disk problem is detected. If the hard drive is badly corrupted, then you have to decide how much recovering the data is worth to you/her. There are services that will go to extremes (think clean rooms full of expensive equipment) to get data off, but as you might guess, this is expensive.
Wait, wait. It's a virus. My nephew had the same problem. The boot sector was gone on the hard drive, everything was gone, both hard drives. It just happened Dec 28. I had to fdisk both drives and reload windows. She has to find the packard bell disk. Maybe she can get it from them but the machine runs so much better with the original CD, at least my compaq does.
If you can't are you in London? I'm sure a culture person has a win98 disk.
Kevin T.
bad people
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