Ineresting Linux feat? What now!

[I am Penguin]

I recently had to clean a machine invested with a persistent virus. After a lengthy personal battle I killed it (the virus) manually but alas the damage done was too much for windows XP to endure. Xp booted but some damage was already done. So I attempted a repair using a windows setup disk to repair and as such try and get windows XP to work again. This repair failed due to some Disk format used by HP to set up this windows Using Altiris with a hidden partition??? so before the machine rebooted It stated a special driver needs to be installed. (f6)?

Needless to say Windows see this partition on the disk as unformated. Any recovered files, using a recovery utility, like excell, photos or music are corrupt. Yet after I installed Linux Kubuntu Karmic on VMware I can read these "corrupt" files, play the musi and see the pictures c????

Linux see this partition as "New volume"

How come Linux can read this partition sort of Ok but Windows cant?

 

[ponder]

How come Linux can read this partition sort of Ok but Windows cant?

Because Linux is a proper OS?

 

[Happy Camper]

LOL! Nice one. Last year I recovered most of my data from a fail win partition using the ubuntu live cd Linux FTW ++

 

[d0b33]

Oh dear... reality is starting to sink in for the win fanboy.

 

[Veroland]

Because Linux is a proper OS?

What he said!

 

[kingrob]

I've also managed to save a few files from a corrupt Windows partition with the Ubuntu live cd.

Always have the Ubuntu live cd with me, it's a lifesaver.

 

[Nod]

I used a Linux rescue CD to copy data of a failing disk. Windows was unable to even read the disk.

I also, on occasion, used OpenOffice to open corrupt MS Office files.

 

[flarkit]

This sounds like corrupted filesystem security settings. I've had to recover Win partitions using Ubuntu previously, because of corrupted security info. Linux scoffs at that and happily reads the files though. So much for MS "security".

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Laptop with failing HDD - Winders doesn't want to boot even. Boot from Knoppix and copy critical data over.

Linux FTW!

 

[CallaB]

How come Linux can read this partition sort of Ok but Windows cant?

Because windows is rubbish! (read k@k)

 

[Centaur]

Linux is awesome at reading and deleting things windows can't. I deleted the Autorun.inf virus from someone's flash drive by just clicking delete in ubuntu, whereas in windows it can't be deleted by most anti-virus programmes.

 

[hawker]

Agreed. Linux has saved me so many times I can't even begin to count. It has no problems reading HDD's etc that Windows refuses to read.

 

[Asha'man X]

One thing it does that Windows can't always do is delete some files installed by that damn Securom copy protection. I have a few of those files sitting on my hard drive now from an old old XP install that I can't get rid of. Will load a live cd in the next day or so and delete that folder. Funny thing is, those Securom files violate every single file standard set by Microsoft, hence why Securom has often been cursed as malware. You can't delete the folder from any other Windows version, and a Windows live cd like Ultimate Boot Disk won't work as well. I've used Linux for this before and it works nicely.