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by hisoka
09 Sep 2020, 16:07
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: RAW Hard Drive with Bad Boot Sector and Bad Backup Boot Sector
Replies: 3
Views: 5477

Re: RAW Hard Drive with Bad Boot Sector and Bad Backup Boot Sector

The ransomware was Petya, which infects the boot sector and formats the hard drive. I have since decrypted the drive and (I believe) removed Petya. Unfortunately the drive is not bootable, but I can still view files. It also appears many files were deleted/corrupted, especially the AppData folder. I ...
by hisoka
31 Aug 2020, 16:13
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: RAW Hard Drive with Bad Boot Sector and Bad Backup Boot Sector
Replies: 3
Views: 5477

RAW Hard Drive with Bad Boot Sector and Bad Backup Boot Sector

Hello, I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this, so I apologize in advance if it is. I have a hard drive that was infected with malware a long time ago, and its file system is listed as RAW. TestDisk says that both the boot sector and backup boot sector are bad. I tried to rebuild the ...