[CentOS] data recovery

Fri Sep 23 20:35:56 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Paras pradhan wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:17 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>
> wrote:
>> On 09/23/11 12:33 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> ay-yup, thats EXACTLY what it looks like.   a NEWER version of Windows
>> at that.
>
> You mean the newer windows will create the partition schema as we are
> seeing it now? And you think its the automatic partitioning by windows
> if somebody has the access to this?
<snip>
That's what we're thinking.

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