Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtwdyp at ttlc.net
Tue Apr 6 22:45:01 UTC 2004


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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