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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.xnet.com!news-admin From: efflandt@xnet.com (David Efflandt) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Windoze 95 Corrupts my Partition ID's Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 04:47:28 GMT Organization: XNet - Chicagoland's Regional ISP (630) 983-6064 Lines: 51 Message-ID: <32cb2d1d.8757144@198.147.221.35> References: <5a02an$pm@herald.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: efflandt.xnet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:219925 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33466 comp.os.linux.misc:150063 Malloc@cris.com (Matthew Bancroft) wrote: >Ive got a 3gigabyte Quantum Fireball IDE drive partitioned into > >900meg Linux Native (ID 83) >100meg Linux Swap (ID 82) >1000meg DOS 16-bit (ID 6) >1000meg BSD/386 (ID a5) > >After i start windoze 95 off another 1gig drive, my partition >types are suddenly adjusted by windoze 95 and my partitioning scheme >becomes > >900meg Amoeba (ID 93) >100meg ??? (ID 92) >1000meg DOS 16-bit (ID 6) >1000meg ??? (ID b5) > >FreeBSD refuses to recognize b5 as a valid FreeBSD partition. Luckily, I >can use Linux fdisk to change the partition types back to what they should >be. > >Does anyone know how I could fix the Windoze 95 problem that im >expieriencing? > >=---------------------- >=Matt Bancroft = >=matt@mec.edu = >=bancroft@akamail.com = >----------------------- Check if Win95 is running in 32-bit mode or DOS Compatibility Mode. See bootlog.txt or generate one to look at by hitting F8 when you see "Loading Win95..." and then whatever will generate a bootlog. If anything loads loads before io.sys (like mbrint13.sys) it sounds like you might have a Stoned.Empire.Monk virus on the other drive. It moves and encrypts (xor's) the partition table. It infects all drives and floppies that are used with that drive (even non-boot floppies). Another way to tell is to boot with a good 'copy protected' DOS or WIN95 boot floppy from a computer that is known to be good. If you cannot see the C: drive, you've got the virus. Only infected boot floppies will work when the HD is infected. My "refurbished" computer from Computer City in Schaumburg, IL came compete with this virus along with a bad motherboard and bad RAM. David Efflandt/Elgin, IL USA efflandt@xnet.com http://www.xnet.com/~efflandt/