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, > > > > > > > > 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 > Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods. +( duncan brown +( duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxx +( http://www.linuxadvocate.net
