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I'm doing some data recovery on my GF's old laptop harddrive (She told me she had nothing on it). I can handle that fine, but I'm wondering what's going on with this partition? Guessing it's the MBR, but why is there a name in Chinese on it? Malware?
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Oct 22, 2015 14:37
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Does it boot? 512bytes is the right size for MBR and the partial japanese/ Chinese characters could be caused by some sort of corruption. If the drive does boot and has a healthy MBR in addition to the mystery partition then keep a close eye on your bank account for the next few months.
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Oct 22, 2015 15:52
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Is the drive encrypted?
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Oct 22, 2015 16:56
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I'm a wee bit anal-retentive, so I'm more concerned that the Disk1-01 and Disk1-02 partitions are out of order. What's the ~100 MB partition that doesn't appear to be a UEFI boot partition?
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Oct 22, 2015 18:00
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It does boot and it's not encrypted. It used to be the boot drive for my HTPC, now it's a secondard drive for said PC with the SSD as the main. It's also not the drive I'm doing data recovery on. E: I think the 100MB partition is the "system reserved" partition that you get when you install Windows onto unpartitioned space. The laptop it came from is too old for UEFI. Lum fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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Oct 22, 2015 20:53
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Decided to copy all the data to a different drive and nuke this one from orbit (diskpart clean) it's the only way to be sure.
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Oct 23, 2015 01:52
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Crotch Fruit posted:Does it boot? 512bytes is the right size for MBR and the partial japanese/ Chinese characters could be caused by some sort of corruption. The characters are gibberish, so corruption would probably be the best guess.
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Oct 24, 2015 08:55
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Third-seating corruption as the most likely cause of the label, though I wonder what seeing as it boots normally. Blowing it away and just starting the drive fresh isn't so bad; always good to do some house cleaning. Which reminds me that I should probably do just that on my system drive.
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Oct 26, 2015 18:57
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