Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system

[duncan brown]

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 at comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 16:08:05 -0400
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system

> On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:05, Guolin Cheng wrote:
> > 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 J, 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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> 
> 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. 
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