Re: FAT32 Floppy data recovery

Michael R. Wilson wrote:
> Chris Friesen wrote:
>
>> How about mounting it as vfat, copy with dd, and use any fat32
>> recovery tool?
>
>
> This disk (I'm guessing) has a messed-up FAT track -- W2K struggles to
> read it, gives up, and then asks if I want to format the disk. I'll give
> dd a try, but I suspect it's not up to handling that level of badosity.

Sorry, I misspoke. You don't need to mount it first.

Just use dd directly on /dev/fd0. As long as the sectors are not totally
screwed, dd will be able you read it. You may not be able to mount it after
that if it is corrupted, but you should be able to get the raw sectors off.

Chris
Received on Mon Nov 22 12:18:54 2004