Can anyone recommend a good virus checker? And maybe a hard drive test program?
My system (RH7.2) which had 3 hard drives (1.6, 2 + 3 GB) just crashed in a messy sort of way - I'd try starting and it would tell me that /usr was bad and drop me to a command prompt. Using fsck would show large numbers of 'short reads' and a few other things that it would apparently fix, but on starting again /usr was still bad and fsck would show more, different short reads. My conclusion: either a very nasty virus or the drive with /usr on (and I can't remember which one that was!) is dying. I'm now running on a 'new' (spare) 2GB drive with an all-new install, I'd like to salvage some data off the old ones, but not without virus-checking them I think. One weird thing - on startup it just shows 'GRUB' on the screen and does nothing more, I have to boot it off the floppy. Not a problem, I'll make a backup floppy ;-) cr - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
