Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system
duncan brown
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Wed Apr 7 14:35:18 UTC 2004
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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