No good deed goes unpunished - Bootable Kaspersky Rescue disk

[gbraden]

My friend, who has a Compaq she barely knows how to use, asked me to do a scan of her Windows XP Home and install an anti-virus for her. I downloaded Kaspersky Rescue disk, dated 05/13/2011 and created a bootable disk from the ISO file. I successfully booted it up, and ran a scan against the C and D disks (logical partictions) which found three 'weatherbug' files, which were deleted. When I selected reboot the machine hung on a 'D Drive is busy' with constant streaming error messages. After an hour of seeing the same over and over again, I finally hit the reset and pulled the disk out of the CD Drive. Of course, it booted up with NTDLR not found. I rebooted the Rescue disk and brought Kaspersky up, and rebooted the machine. With the same results. UBUNTU indicated that /dev/spd2 was marked busy, and following (google lookups)directions I 'mounted' /dev/spd2. Looking at both partitions, I found 1 empty, and 2 with a Kaspersky directory populated with other directories and files.

Windows rescue disk: nothing shows up (but the above mentioned folder) on C and D. BOOTCFG /REBUILD indicated corrupted disk, and FDISK /R for both disks indicate no problems.

Bottom line. Is the stuff gone? UBUNTU showed no data, a search for the OS on the drives found Windows, but when I pointed at it to reboot, it came up with a corrupted DLL (I forget which one). I just want to be sure before I do a low level format and reinstall windows.



Glen Braden

 

[goombawaho]

See my reply in this thread. It's the first reply. Follow instructions and see if data can be seen.

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1648182