Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system

[duncan brown]

you can dd the file system into a file, and then use mount to mount it.

dd if=/dev/hda2 of=diskimage.iso
mount -o loop diskimage.iso


----- Original Message -----
From: "Guolin Cheng" <guolin at alexa.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 12:05:18 -0700
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system

> Hi, 
> 
>  
> 
>  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?  I run a "hdparm" 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
> 
>  
> 

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