On 2004-04-05 at 12:05:18-0700 Guolin Cheng <guolin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 :-), Now the problem is, How > to recover data from a corrupted fat32 file system? Have you tried running fsck? $ fsck.msdos -r -v -V /dev/hda2 Alternatively, if you trust Microsoft's tools more (fsck.msdos claims that FAT32 support is still in alpha), follow the suggestion of making a DOS boot floppy with CHKDISK on it, and use CHKDISK to check the problematic drive letter. -- James Ralston, Information Technology Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA