Thank,
However, how could I have destroy the partition table of 3 disks
using gparted only?
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Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre(a)gmx.com
Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
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> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 at 4:49 PM
> From: stan <stanl-fedorauser(a)vfemail.net>
> To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: /dev/loop
>
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:22:50 +0200
> "Patrick Dupre" <pdupre(a)gmx.com> wrote:
>
> > 2 days ago, I received a brand new UBS key (Lexar S75).
> > I inserted it inside the UBS port of my Linux machine.
> > I open the key (it mounted automatically) and read the instructions
> > about the encryption coming with the key (by opening a file).
> > I did not pay too much attention because I was not interested,
>
> This can be a recipe for disaster when working with computers.
>
> > I just changed the size of the
> > first partition and I added a ext4 partition.
>
> Is it possible you made a mistake and actually changed a different
> partition table? The partition table for one of your disks?
>
> > Later I turned off the PC.
> > The following day, I tried to restart te computer, but I was
> > unable to boot.
> > Thus, I try to read the key from another computer and gparted did not
> > like (fdisk was giving wrong partitions). Thus, I had to entirely
> > repartition the stick.
>
> Again, a good indication that you didn't actually partition the
> USB stick when you thought you did.
>
> > Anyway, I started to investigate the issues with the PC which could
> > not boot. And I arrived at the point that the partition tables of the
> > 3 HD were mess up.
> >
> > Now, I am making the link.
> > Can this stick have a virus which may have mess up the partition
> > tables.
>
> I don't think so.
> >
> > Please, note that one of the HD probably still had a XP OS bootable.
> > I did not use it for a very long time.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Unless you ran a program from the USB stick, the fact XP was on the
> disk would have no effect. And it would have to be a linux program
> that modified the partition tables, so it would have to run as root.
> Opening a file would not do this. Hmm, if you used an editor with a
> script interpreter in it, and the file had a script for that editor,
> and the script was set to run on open, and you were root, and Jupiter
> aligned with Mars, and ...
>
> Far more likely you partitioned the wrong disk.
>
> Or, does that PC have power issues? Or could one of the disks be
> failing?
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