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Re: What is the point of the restore partition?

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In message <ydnhartv330.fsf@shell.xmission.com> 
  Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
> If you've found a virus or root kit on your computer, the restore
> partition shouldn't be trusted either.

The restore partition is not generally available when you are not booted
off it, so it should be clean. Also, I have no reason to think that the
restore partition would load anything but the things it knows to load,
and those things are likely sandboxed.

>If the hard disk failed, the restore partition is probably gone too.

Depends on exactly how/why he disk failed. Not all failures are physical.

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What is the point of the restore partition? Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-08-23 13:08 -0600
  Re: What is the point of the restore partition? Salvatore <sal@yojimbo.hack.invalid> - 2012-08-23 19:15 +0000
  Re: What is the point of the restore partition? "Wayne C. Morris" <wayne.morris@this.is.invalid> - 2012-08-23 15:14 -0500
  Re: What is the point of the restore partition? Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2012-08-23 14:31 -0600
    Re: What is the point of the restore partition? Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-08-23 16:01 -0600
  Re: What is the point of the restore partition? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2012-08-23 22:09 +0000
    Re: What is the point of the restore partition? Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-08-23 18:28 -0600

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