[CentOS] data recovery

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Keith Roberts wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us
>> 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?

And if it *is* a production box, then you know *exactly* what time it
stopped working, and you can find out who was around.

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