In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > after my kid was playing games on win95 yesterday > evening i was unable to boot into Linux - actually unable > to boot into win95 also... Looks like some kind of > virus destroyed boot sector with partition table. > > i can remember approximate partition sizes and order. > > Is there any way to recover partition table and the system > as well ?
You got hit with the CIH virus. It was well publicized at least a week prior to the detonation date (yesterday). All reports that I have seen don't hold much hope for recovering without a full reinstall. (hope you backed up your data..) It is an unfortunate fact that if you want to run Windows on a machine nowadays, you must pay tribute to the antivirus gods or suffer their wrath from time to time. -Mitch
