[CentOS] data recovery

[Keith Roberts]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] data recovery
> 
> Paras pradhan wrote:
>> Here is o/p John
>>
>> Number  Start   End     Size   File system  Name
>>    Flags
>>  1      17.4kB  134MB   134MB               Microsoft reserved
>> partition  msftres
>>  2      135MB   134GB   134GB  ntfs         Basic data partition
>>  3      134GB   1100GB  965GB               Basic data partition
> <snip>
> Looks to me as though someone started to install Windows on top of your
> box. This isn't partition data magically changed - best guess is someone
> started, then stopped, realizing it was the wrong box they were working
> on.

If it's a production box in service, and this has 
happened to it, How can it still be running?

Keith

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