Well, whaddya know, a Winblows 98 start disk gave me access to all 3 drives
I thought were lost. Now what do I do? It seems I should be able to mount
them in Linux as "vfat". Now that I'm here, here's exactly what's happening:
I try "mount -r -t vfat /dev/hda5 /d" as root
I get "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, or too
many mounted file systems"
I seriously doubt it's the latter, I only have / mounted otherwise.
Some more history, I've checked fdisk in linux, it says they're 'Win95
FAT32' drives. The HOWTO says to use 'vfat' to mount. I've also verified
that vfat.o exists in /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/fs.
I think I may try formatting one of these to DOS and using it as a transfer
point, hoping that will work. Anyone have a better suggestion? Thanks a lot
for the help.
-John
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Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 5:35 AM
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Subject: Re: reading FAT32
Hi,
This is only a small suggestion, but can't you boot up your computer with a
MS-DOS bootdisk to, at least, see if there is any data to be saved?
I don't know if you can see partitions beyond C:\, but I think it worth the
shot.
I know I keep on dragging about Microsoft, but that's something i really
(well, kinda) know.
Remon
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Van: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: maandag 7 augustus 2000 7:22
Onderwerp: RE: reading FAT32
>On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you wrote:
>> No can do, all drives are on the same physical device. Probably should
have
>> tried that before installing RH. Dang.
>>
>Man, this is a REAL puzzler... I'll be interested to know if you can
>salvage the windows partitions!
> John
>
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