On Friday 10 February 2006 21:28, James Wilkinson wrote: > > You might like to investigate > mount -vt ext3 -o sb=131072 /dev/hdb1 /misc/ > which should use an alternative superblock. > Is anything similar possible on a fat32 drive? I need to try to rescue data from a 'foreign' drive. 'fdisk -l' lists it as a single large fat32 partition, but trying to mount it as 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/temp' tells me that there is a bad superblock. Anne