[Hidden-tech] Dell Inspiron E1505 recovery disk

[Herb Singleton]

I bought a recovery CD from someone off craigslist for $15 (turns out he only lived about a mile from me so it was very covienet). The  problem was a nasty rootkit that also messed with the boot sector, but a combination of TDSS, ADRC tools, a repair install and an external SATA enclosure (with a working laptop) allowed me to recover everything.

Thx all.

h

On May 15, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Town Websites wrote:

> Search on E1505 recovery shows something on EBay for $6.75 shipped.
> 
> There are various Linux based 'Recovery' options that will let you boot off
> of a USB key and get access to partitions and copy data, however, I don't
> know what it can do with your laptop's recovery partition.  It is possible
> that partition could be set as bootable, or you could use the tools to copy
> the whole drive to a new hard disk.  Also could replace the boot sector and
> find the partitions if the drive itself isn't toast.  I keep a usb stick
> around with SystemRescueCD , Knoppix is also highly recommended.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> CHarlie
> 
> 
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> A bit of a hail mary, but I figured I'd try - does anyone have a recovery
> disk for a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop hanging around? The boot sector of the
> startup-disk for a laptop went bad so I can't get to the recovery partition
> and I'd like to see if I can salvage this install.
> 
> thx
> 
> Herb
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