Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system

[duncan brown]

because /mbr resets the master boot record to what msdos/windows wants it to be, which is linux-free.  so he'll have to go through re-installing grub through a fc rescue session.  but he's having trouble reading the disk, not just booting from it.  it doesn't sound like this is a boot loader problem but either hardware failure or drive errors.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtwdyp at ttlc.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 22:45:01 +0000 (UTC)
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system

> Ummnn: What besides needing to make and test a boot disk 1st, makes this 
> such "bad juju"?? I don't know that this would WORK. But I don't see how it
> can mess up the kinux install. I mean all you have to do is boot from a
> floppy, and rerun lilo, or whatever you do to fix a grub loader...
> Right???
> 
> 
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> It would appear that on Apr 5, duncan brown did say:
> 
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> > > On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:05, Guolin Cheng wrote:
> > > 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. 
> > > -- 
> > > jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
> 
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