Hi, Wilson, Thanks. Your competition seems quite interesting. My FAT32 file system seems screwed by virus or something else. Because I have other same type laptop hard drives with exactly same partitions, so I copied the first as few as 38 bytes of the first sector of /dev/hda2 partition from a working hard disk, then overwrite with it onto my failed hard drive, then I can mount it at 1st time. But now the new problem is, I can see only 256 useless files. Is there are any way for windows to boot from laptop's USB hard drive, or diskless windows, so that I can run Norton Virus related tools to kill the bothersome virus. The following is the contrast of a working FAT32 and my failed FAT32, any idea of the string "HSRIJ4*1" instead of normal correct "MSWIN4.1"? Suggestions are greatly appreciated. root 139% od -x good_hda2_sectors | head -5 0000000 58eb 4d90 5753 4e49 2e34 0031 1002 0020 0000020 0002 0000 f800 0000 003f 00f0 b130 0000 0000040 0100 012b 2557 0000 0000 0000 0002 0000 0000060 0001 0006 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 root 140% od -x failed_hda2_sectors | head -5 0000000 58eb 4890 5253 4a49 2a34 0031 2002 0020 0000020 0002 0000 f800 0000 003f 00f0 b030 0000 0000040 7850 0253 2033 0000 0000 0000 0002 0000 0000060 0001 0006 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000100 0080 0a29 620f 4807 4a50 504f 4245 4a4f root 141% od -c good_hda2_sectors | head -5 0000000 353 X 220 M S W I N 4 . 1 \0 002 020 \0 0000020 002 \0 \0 \0 \0 370 \0 \0 ? \0 360 \0 0 261 \0 \0 0000040 \0 001 + 001 W % \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 002 \0 \0 \0 0000060 001 \0 006 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 0000100 200 001 ) \0 020 @ 016 H P N O T E B O O root 142% od -c failed_hda2_sectors | head -5 0000000 353 X 220 H S R I J 4 * 1 \0 002 \0 0000020 002 \0 \0 \0 \0 370 \0 \0 ? \0 360 \0 0 260 \0 \0 0000040 P x S 002 3 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 002 \0 \0 \0 0000060 001 \0 006 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 0000100 200 \0 ) \n 017 b \a H P J O P E B O J -----Original Message----- From: Chadley Wilson [mailto:chadley@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 3:41 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: RE: Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 00:24, Guolin Cheng wrote: > Hi, Chadley, > > Thanks a lot. No sorry at all. Your suggestions are good as well. > > Thanks. > --Guolin Cheng Guolin it a pleasure to help, What I am doing for U right now is trying to get another win98 fat32 drive hooked up to the USB unit. and see if I can create an image of it and mount it. I am using the USB and not the IDE simply because I have a competition going on on my side with some guys running XPlease to see whos system will last the longest with out a reboot. I am winning, obviously, but I don't wish to kill my up-time by rebooting. I will post you the neccesary info/steps of my success, that is if it is successful the second time round. My uptime is at a staggering 00:38:04 up 22 days, 2:27, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.01 I think that all the other competitors have rebooted a few times by now. The XPlease boxes seem to last about 2 days. Cheers for now -- Chadley - Linux Rocks Welcome to my world. ****************************************************************** This mail is free for distribution. You are free to - delete it - resend it - use it in anyway that makes you happy. I am not responsible for it or its content due to ignorance. Enjoy the adventures of Linux ******************************************************************* -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
