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From: Toby Barrick on 1 Dec 2009 15:43
I have a work issued laptop that has a "super user account" for support and
my account called admin (with reduced rights). My PC was acting a bit flaky
so I scheduled a chkdsk and rebooted. All went well and no issues were found.
The disk was pronounced clean and some other verbiage followed by .... (four
dots). That is as far as it went. hmmmm.... ok, so I tried it again....same
result. Knowing the support user ID and password I tried to boot into
safemode but the PC hung and "sounded" like it was performing the same chkdsk
in the background but no info was displayed. After about 4 hours the system
rebooted and tried to boot into safemode(?) but hung again at the four dots
after proclaiming my system drive as clean.

I then tried to boot off of a windows XP Pro CD but it would blue screen
after loading several drivers.

I have a Linux live CD with very limited tools on it and I know there is
data still on the drive and I cannot afford to loose it.

Suggestions?
From: David H. Lipman on 1 Dec 2009 17:18
From: "Toby Barrick" <TobyBarrick(a)discussions.microsoft.com>

| I have a work issued laptop that has a "super user account" for support and
| my account called admin (with reduced rights). My PC was acting a bit flaky
| so I scheduled a chkdsk and rebooted. All went well and no issues were found.
| The disk was pronounced clean and some other verbiage followed by .... (four
| dots). That is as far as it went. hmmmm.... ok, so I tried it again....same
| result. Knowing the support user ID and password I tried to boot into
| safemode but the PC hung and "sounded" like it was performing the same chkdsk
| in the background but no info was displayed. After about 4 hours the system
| rebooted and tried to boot into safemode(?) but hung again at the four dots
| after proclaiming my system drive as clean.

| I then tried to boot off of a windows XP Pro CD but it would blue screen
| after loading several drivers.

| I have a Linux live CD with very limited tools on it and I know there is
| data still on the drive and I cannot afford to loose it.

| Suggestions?

Return it ASAP to your employer's support group.
Anything you may do may be deemed as tampering with company owned equipment.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


From: Toby Barrick on 1 Dec 2009 18:25


"David H. Lipman" wrote:

> From: "Toby Barrick" <TobyBarrick(a)discussions.microsoft.com>
>
> | I have a work issued laptop that has a "super user account" for support and
> | my account called admin (with reduced rights). My PC was acting a bit flaky
> | so I scheduled a chkdsk and rebooted. All went well and no issues were found.
> | The disk was pronounced clean and some other verbiage followed by .... (four
> | dots). That is as far as it went. hmmmm.... ok, so I tried it again....same
> | result. Knowing the support user ID and password I tried to boot into
> | safemode but the PC hung and "sounded" like it was performing the same chkdsk
> | in the background but no info was displayed. After about 4 hours the system
> | rebooted and tried to boot into safemode(?) but hung again at the four dots
> | after proclaiming my system drive as clean.
>
> | I then tried to boot off of a windows XP Pro CD but it would blue screen
> | after loading several drivers.
>
> | I have a Linux live CD with very limited tools on it and I know there is
> | data still on the drive and I cannot afford to loose it.
>
> | Suggestions?
>
> Return it ASAP to your employer's support group.
> Anything you may do may be deemed as tampering with company owned equipment.
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
>
>
> .
> Bleh - - - everything I do IS tampering with company equipment. In the nearly 20 years I have been mucking around with computers this is a first for me.

FYI - - Ubuntu has quite a few tools that will allow me copy the data over
to another drive and then I can semi safely go into a tad more risky areas in
my attempts to kill chkdsk

From: Roy Smith on 1 Dec 2009 20:32
On 12/1/2009 5:25 PM, Toby Barrick wrote:
>
>
> "David H. Lipman" wrote:
>
>> From: "Toby Barrick" <TobyBarrick(a)discussions.microsoft.com>
>>
>> | I have a work issued laptop that has a "super user account" for support and
>> | my account called admin (with reduced rights). My PC was acting a bit flaky
>> | so I scheduled a chkdsk and rebooted. All went well and no issues were found.
>> | The disk was pronounced clean and some other verbiage followed by .... (four
>> | dots). That is as far as it went. hmmmm.... ok, so I tried it again....same
>> | result. Knowing the support user ID and password I tried to boot into
>> | safemode but the PC hung and "sounded" like it was performing the same chkdsk
>> | in the background but no info was displayed. After about 4 hours the system
>> | rebooted and tried to boot into safemode(?) but hung again at the four dots
>> | after proclaiming my system drive as clean.
>>
>> | I then tried to boot off of a windows XP Pro CD but it would blue screen
>> | after loading several drivers.
>>
>> | I have a Linux live CD with very limited tools on it and I know there is
>> | data still on the drive and I cannot afford to loose it.
>>
>> | Suggestions?
>>
>> Return it ASAP to your employer's support group.
>> Anything you may do may be deemed as tampering with company owned equipment.
>>
>> --
>> Dave
>> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
>> Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
>>
>>
>> .
>> Bleh - - - everything I do IS tampering with company equipment. In the nearly 20 years I have been mucking around with computers this is a first for me.
>
> FYI - - Ubuntu has quite a few tools that will allow me copy the data over
> to another drive and then I can semi safely go into a tad more risky areas in
> my attempts to kill chkdsk

But the point is *YOU* should not be trying to fix the laptop. That's
the responsibility of your company's IT department and the reason it has
a "super user account" as you put it. Let them fix it, and if they lose
your data files then you can blame them for it.

Unless it's something that shouldn't have been on there in the first
place... ;-)

--

Roy Smith
Windows XP Pro SP3

From: Andrew E. on 2 Dec 2009 13:21
Thats a very old xp issue (4 yrs),SP2 &/or SP3 will iliminate that..

"Toby Barrick" wrote:

> I have a work issued laptop that has a "super user account" for support and
> my account called admin (with reduced rights). My PC was acting a bit flaky
> so I scheduled a chkdsk and rebooted. All went well and no issues were found.
> The disk was pronounced clean and some other verbiage followed by .... (four
> dots). That is as far as it went. hmmmm.... ok, so I tried it again....same
> result. Knowing the support user ID and password I tried to boot into
> safemode but the PC hung and "sounded" like it was performing the same chkdsk
> in the background but no info was displayed. After about 4 hours the system
> rebooted and tried to boot into safemode(?) but hung again at the four dots
> after proclaiming my system drive as clean.
>
> I then tried to boot off of a windows XP Pro CD but it would blue screen
> after loading several drivers.
>
> I have a Linux live CD with very limited tools on it and I know there is
> data still on the drive and I cannot afford to loose it.
>
> Suggestions?
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