OFF: virus help

[Stephen Swann]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:03:08PM +0000, M Holmes wrote:
> Eric Siegerman writes:
>
> > [I was going to reply to Mike privately, but this is important
> > for other listmembers to read as well, in case you have something
> > similar happen some day.]
> >
> > Mike, the first thing to do is: STOP MUCKING ABOUT WITH IT!
>
> Well, it looks like there's not much mucking about to do as the disk
> isn't even spinning. The virus looks to be a coincidence. Certainly
> Badtrans isn't listed for this sort of wreckage so it looks like a hard
> drive meltdown, probably helped along by the 5 CDRs I burned that night.
>
> This is when that backup thing would have been handy, right?
>
> So, any suggestions for how to get it spinning again?

Oof!  "Not spinning" is about the worst of all worlds (short
of "flame and smoke spewing from the drive case").  I've
missed any previous posts on this (deleting like crazy to
catch up on 6 weeks worth of mail), but it sounds like your
drive is probably toast.  The only useful thing I can
suggest at this point is make sure that the power cable is
firmly plugged into it.  Those things don't usualy work
loose if they were correctly plugged in, but it's worth a
check.

Steve