Cannot Find Hard Drive Partition On Rescue Cd Desktop

gatorsong

I am trying to get rid of a virus and was recommended to use the rescue CD and delete some files from the hard drive that way.

I can load up the rescue CD without any issue, however, there are no icons for the hard drive on the desktop as it appears in some of the screen shots.

I've tried going through the file folders and cannot find it there either.

I am not really familiar with Linux and don't know what to do at this point.

I've browsed through multiple forums and can't seem to find an answer anywhere.

I just want to get rid of this virus without having to reformat my hard drive.

Any ideas?

Unknown

Hello gatorsong,

From what it seems the Rescue CD fails to mount the disk partitions of your hard drive. Let's try to mount them manually. Please use these steps:

1. Right click on your Desktop and select Terminal(as root);

2. Type:

fdisk -l

[Enter]

This command will show you an output similar to something like:

/dev/hda1

/dev/sda1

etc.

3. now type in:

mount

[Enter]

This will show you which devices have already been mounted.

4. Make a comparison in between the output you got at step 2 and the one at step 3. If any of the devices at step 2 do not show up in the list at step 3(especially the ones that start with hda) then you will need to mount the partitions manually.

5. In order to do this type in:

mkdir /media/(here you will need to type in the name of the partition that you identified at step 4 like for example hda1 - we will be using this as a generic example, you will need to replace it with the info that you got at step 4)

[Enter]

6. Now type in:

mount /dev/hda1(or the name of the partition that you identified at step 4) /media/hda1

Thanks!

gatorsong

I attempted the steps you listed.

The command : "fdisk -l" gave no result.

I tried the command : "mount" and received this:

tmpfs on /UNIONFS/lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)

proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)

tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)

rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)

/dev/hda on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro)

/dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro)

/ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw)

/UNIONFS on /UNIONFS type aufs (rw,xino=/ramdisk/.aufs.xino,br:/ramdisk=rw:/KNOPPIX=ro)

/dev/shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

/dev/hda on /media/hda type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev)

none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)

With nothing to compare it to from the fdisk -l command, I'm not sure what to do at this point.

Let me know if there is any other information that you could use to help me figure out this problem.

Thanks

Unknown

Hello gatorsong,

I know this may sound a little strange but for:

fdisk -l

for the variable "-l" did you type in "I" as in India or "l" as in "Lima"?

Thanks!

gatorsong

I tried both actually. Neither one did anything.

Unfortunately, the situation got worse and I couldn't do anything at all. The virus was preventing me from being able to do anything at all in the regular windows environment, so I went ahead and reformatted.

I appreciate the help.

Now that I have bitdefender I hope that I will be able to avoid that situation again.

Thanks again

Jeff

SlipKuDX08

hi diane bele,, what is mount and unmout? and how to use that? and what will happen if i will mount or unmount the drive?.,.,thanks in advane.,.,TC.,.,^^

Unknown

Hello warren flores,

These are commands for mounting/unmounting a drive in bash. For more information on the concept please use this wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_(computing)

windowopen

Yeah, you just want to get rid of this virus without having to reformat your hard drive.

I think you have solved your problem, rught? I have read all the ideas the kindhearted people gave you. Very detail, and the total information is helpful.

Thank you for asking this problem.