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To: wily who wrote (3259)	4/27/1999 2:19:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

hey wily, regarding recovery.... this from a symantec email bulletin: 1.3 Recovering when the payload has been delivered The virus can do two things when it executes on the 26th of the month: 1. It can overwrite critical data areas in the first 2048 sectors of your hard disk. When that happens, you will see a "non-system disk" when the system boots from the hard drive or an "invalid media" message when you try to boot from a system floppy disk or a rescue disk. In these cases, you will need Norton Utilities or Norton Data Recovery Services to recover data on your hard disk. If you choose Symantec's Data Recovery Services, you will need to ship your hard disk to Symantec. Cost for these services is $250 for FAT16 drives and $400 for FAT32 drives. Additional is at: symantec.com btw, i wasn't able to connect to the above tech support recovery link. they must be getting a lot of business. :) mark

To: wily who wrote (3259)	4/27/1999 2:20:00 PM
From: RJL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

Not off hand no. At least not typical end-user stuff. From what I know, CIH overwrites the first 1 or 2 megs of the drive, leaving the rest of the data intact, but the directory structure and allocation tables destroyed. It would be interesting to see if it works. So far, we've just been replacing some M/B's. Haven't touched the hard-drives....yet. Sorry. Rich

To: wily who wrote (3259)	4/27/1999 2:47:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

In my opinion, it should not be a problem to recover that data. Willy, for a price of approx $500 (some less some more) some companies will recover your data in 24 hours. I have seen pictures of computers that were in buildings burned to the ground and the data was all recovered. Computers at the bottom of bodies of water and data recovered. Hard drives formatted, and data recovered. Here is one links. recover-data.com It all depends how valuable your data is. I was looking for a link I had to a gallery of pictures of destroyed computers where they recovered ALL the data on the HD. Pretty cool. If I find it I will post it. Back-up your data, becuase you WILL experiance data loss. You can put your money on that!