If the FAT32 volume resides on /dev/hda2 I doubt that overwritting the MBR is going to help. If the partition table is corrupt, you'll overwrite it with the new MBR, which will create a new set of headaches. The fact that 'fdisk' sees the partition leads me to suspect that either the Volume Boot Record or FAT are corrupt. I would recommend using a tool such as Norton Diskedit to examine the VBR and FAT and see what is reported. If the 1st FAT is corrupt, you can copy the 2nd FAT to the clipboard and write it back to the 1st FAT. If you do that, make sure to syncronize the File Allocation Tables before you exit. - JD ----- Original Message ----- From: "jludwig" <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 4:08 PM Subject: Re: Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system > On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:05, Guolin Cheng wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Iâm trying to recover data from a corrupted Win Fat32 file system > > using Fedora, with a command âmount ât vfat /dev/hda2 /mntâ, but the > > operation fails. Iâm pretty sure it is a fat32 file system because > > âfdiskâ proves a very honest gentleman J, Now the problem is, How to > > recover data from a corrupted fat32 file system? I run a âhdparmâ 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 > >
