[Billthedrill]

Oh, no argument at all, I just get a little irritated at these DoomDoomKerboom articles. I last used testdisk about three weeks ago to bring back a partition table on a machine somebody had trashed "irrecoverably". CS major, too. The guy blushed scarlet when he saw how easy it was.

You are, of course, completely correct that the average user might not know about this stuff, more's the pity. So, 'fess up - could you write a script and put it on a bootable medium that would take care of this in a single operation? Yes, you could. Haha - admit it! ;-)

[dayglored]

> So, 'fess up - could you write a script and put it on a bootable medium that would take care of this in a single operation? Yes, you could. Haha - admit it! ;-)

"Guilty, Your Honor!!"

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I just get a little irritated at these DoomDoomKerboom articles

Yup. The virus may be for real but this "article" reads like a junk e-mail. We've all seen those before: "indestructible virus", "completely destroys your computer", "intelligently evades detection".