Re: Quick hard drive question
Rod wrote: Hi All! Here is a curly question for you all. Is it possible that if a machine is hooked into ADSL, it can be hacked and the drive initialised? We have a customer that is hooked into ADSL. He says that while he was online, the machine crashed with a type 1 error. When he tried to reboot, a flashing question mark appeared. He brought the machine into the store. After booting off a Diskwarrior CD, we noticed that the drive had now been called 'Untitled' and was empty. Does this sound at all possible? Sounds more like he renamed it or did he initialize it ? -- If you can smile when things go wrong You obviously have someone in mind to blame
Re: Quick hard drive question
Hi All! Here is a curly question for you all. Is it possible that if a machine is hooked into ADSL, it can be hacked and the drive initialised? Yes. We have a customer that is hooked into ADSL. He says that while he was online, the machine crashed with a type 1 error. When he tried to reboot, a flashing question mark appeared. He brought the machine into the store. After booting off a Diskwarrior CD, we noticed that the drive had now been called 'Untitled' and was empty. Does this sound at all possible? Yes, that's possible. The leap from that to 'someone broke in and hacked my machine' is somewhat nebulous though. Have fun, Shay (Remembering Chicken Little) -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer It must be bunnies! Opinions for hire [POQ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord
Re: Quick hard drive question
Hi All! Here is a curly question for you all. Is it possible that if a machine is hooked into ADSL, it can be hacked and the drive initialised? Yes. We have a customer that is hooked into ADSL. He says that while he was online, the machine crashed with a type 1 error. When he tried to reboot, a flashing question mark appeared. He brought the machine into the store. After booting off a Diskwarrior CD, we noticed that the drive had now been called 'Untitled' and was empty. Does this sound at all possible? Yes, that's possible. The leap from that to 'someone broke in and hacked my machine' is somewhat nebulous though. You can't initialise the startup disk which is presumably the one he was running on when the crash occurred. I would be seriously investigating the problem of operator error.
Re: Quick hard drive question
You can't initialise the startup disk which is presumably the one he was running on when the crash occurred. I would be seriously investigating the problem of operator error. Want a bet? :) However I'd have to agree that operator error would be pretty high on the list of suspects. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer It must be bunnies! Opinions for hire [POQ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord
Re: Quick hard drive question
On 2/5/02 4:04 PM, Shay Telfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can't initialise the startup disk which is presumably the one he was running on when the crash occurred. I would be seriously investigating the problem of operator error. This is where the PEBKAC rule might apply... Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair Regards Matthew Healey -- Matthew Healey Information Systems Western Orthopaedic Clinic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 (08) 9489 8700 Fax: +61 (08) 9381 8300 Suite 213 25 McCourt Street Subiaco 6008 Western Australia
