so, during/after your dd, did you encounter any error messages? also, when you (under linux) run fdisk on the drive and print out the contents, it DOES show a vfat/fat32, right? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guolin Cheng" <guolin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 15:45:27 -0700 To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system > Hi, Duncan, > > Thanks for you suggestions. I tried dd the partition into a image file, > then mount it with "mount -o loop -t vfat|msdos|umsdos <file.image> > /mnt" > But the command failed. > > Any other ideas? Thanks. > > --Guolin Cheng > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: duncan brown [mailto:duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 5:04 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system > > this is bad juju. you don't want to ruin your fedora/linux install > because your fat is muffed. i'd highly recommend against following > this advice. > > have you tried the dd idea yet? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 16:08:05 -0400 > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system > > > On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:05, Guolin Cheng wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > I???m trying to recover data from a corrupted Win Fat32 file system > > > using Fedora, with a command ???mount ???t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt???, > but the > > > operation fails. I???m pretty sure it is a fat32 file system because > > > ???fdisk??? proves a very honest gentleman J, Now the problem is, > How to > > > recover data from a corrupted fat32 file system? I run a > ???hdparm??? on > > > the hard disk to scan bad blocks and proves that the hard disk is > > > error-free. > > > > > > > > > > > > Any suggestions/ideas are greatly appreciated. > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > --Guiolin Cheng > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > -- > > > fedora-list mailing list > > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > Off a dos floppy with the dos fdisk try to mount c:\. If you can, then > > try scandisk. If you can't mount c:\ then fdisk \mbr. > > This will overwrite the MBR I.E. Grub/lilo. > > -- > > jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's > methods. > > +( duncan brown > +( duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxx > +( http://www.linuxadvocate.net > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods. +( duncan brown +( duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxx +( http://www.linuxadvocate.net
