Dead on
I will always stick a windows drive into Linux system first as you have
abetter chance of actually seeing something.
Last week I recovered a drive (FAT32) which was infected with FORM A virus.
Windows gave eroor reading drive C: Abort retry fail ? message.
Mounted under Linux vfat and saw all the data straight away.
Used dd to replace infected boot sectors and was back in action.
Regards Ger
At 11:09 13/02/02 +0000, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 13 February 2002 09:02, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > There are a lot of disk tools, and some are better than others. Probably
> > the best kit for fat partitions is Norton Utilities under windoze. Linux
> > isn't much into fat, and there's a lot of versions - fat6, fat32, fat32x,
> > etc.
>>I can remember several occasions in the bad old days using Linux to recover
>data from sick windows partitions. Linux has very good fat support, sometimes
>able to read stuff that windows can't. I'm not sure where you got the
>impression that linux "isn't much into fat". AFAIK the vfat module supports
>all the variations on fat (all the ones I've ever come across).
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