Unknown boot message
Posted: Wed 29 Jan 2014, 20:51
After booting and running from a Puppy live CD with no problems, I decided to again boot from Puppy on the hard drive.
When I went to boot Puppy 5.11, I momentarily saw something with the words Data Shield flash on the screen and disappear.
I have not installed any files I know of that would associate with that.
So my question is where did that momentary message come from?
Should I do a backup of my pupsave files and a complete wipe of both hard drives using dban and then do a reinstall using burnt CDs of the puppy OSes I want to use.
I think my problems are not associated with failing hard drives,
I did comprehensive checks of the drives and they appear to be good.
But for a message to suddenly show that has nothing to do with my installed files, I am trying to sort this out.
Also, I previously did a complete factory reinstall of Vista from the recovery partition that supposedly formatted the drive. But the format seemed to be too fast and I assume it was a quick format done by the Vista recovery install.
I have read that some viruses will survive a format of the hard drive and so that is part of the reason for using Dban to do a wipe of the drives and then go from there.
I have nothing personal on the drives that I would not share with anyone other than stored passwords in Seamonkey.
But I sure would not want to infect someone elses computer and that is part of the reason I want to sort this out.
One thing that has changed since just before these problems started is that I bought my wife a Nook tablet and connected it to the router aka my personal network.
Her Nook currently does not have Best Buys antivirus installed on it too.
Could her Nook have been used via internet to infect my PC?
I am still looking for answers and have looked on the net for datashield to see what it is.
It seems to also be used on some CDs to protect content of the CDs.
But I did not investigate further.
My wife says I should go buy another PC to replace this one that is driving me crazy.
But I am stubborn and would really like to see what has caused file corruption of both Windows Vista partition and Puppy partitions.
I already am to the point of knowing I have to reinstall everything on a clean drive since I have now had a number of areas of the drives show up in saved data files made by chkdsk on Windows Vista and similar problems with my ext2 partitions.
The ext2 partitions were unmounted before running ex2fsck on them.
So.....
1. Should I trash the desktop PC for another assuming hardware problems?
2. Try the drives on another PC doing a complete install on the other computer?
3. Stop posting about my troubles and ask for no further help?
4. Start a botnet to pass along my problems to all Puppy and Windows PCs?
Sorry about the last one, I am just truly frustrated!
When I went to boot Puppy 5.11, I momentarily saw something with the words Data Shield flash on the screen and disappear.
I have not installed any files I know of that would associate with that.
So my question is where did that momentary message come from?
Should I do a backup of my pupsave files and a complete wipe of both hard drives using dban and then do a reinstall using burnt CDs of the puppy OSes I want to use.
I think my problems are not associated with failing hard drives,
I did comprehensive checks of the drives and they appear to be good.
But for a message to suddenly show that has nothing to do with my installed files, I am trying to sort this out.
Also, I previously did a complete factory reinstall of Vista from the recovery partition that supposedly formatted the drive. But the format seemed to be too fast and I assume it was a quick format done by the Vista recovery install.
I have read that some viruses will survive a format of the hard drive and so that is part of the reason for using Dban to do a wipe of the drives and then go from there.
I have nothing personal on the drives that I would not share with anyone other than stored passwords in Seamonkey.
But I sure would not want to infect someone elses computer and that is part of the reason I want to sort this out.
One thing that has changed since just before these problems started is that I bought my wife a Nook tablet and connected it to the router aka my personal network.
Her Nook currently does not have Best Buys antivirus installed on it too.
Could her Nook have been used via internet to infect my PC?
I am still looking for answers and have looked on the net for datashield to see what it is.
It seems to also be used on some CDs to protect content of the CDs.
But I did not investigate further.
My wife says I should go buy another PC to replace this one that is driving me crazy.
But I am stubborn and would really like to see what has caused file corruption of both Windows Vista partition and Puppy partitions.
I already am to the point of knowing I have to reinstall everything on a clean drive since I have now had a number of areas of the drives show up in saved data files made by chkdsk on Windows Vista and similar problems with my ext2 partitions.
The ext2 partitions were unmounted before running ex2fsck on them.
So.....
1. Should I trash the desktop PC for another assuming hardware problems?
2. Try the drives on another PC doing a complete install on the other computer?
3. Stop posting about my troubles and ask for no further help?
4. Start a botnet to pass along my problems to all Puppy and Windows PCs?
Sorry about the last one, I am just truly frustrated!