i think you should probably use vfat instead, it is how mount knows fat32
partitions...

 -munir

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, johndmiller wrote:

> This is not a Linux question but with all the knowledge and kindness out
> there I am hoping someone will be able to give a hand.  My dad's win 98
> machine got the magistr virus and an no longer boot from the HD.  I have
> linux on a floppy and booted the computer from that and tried to mount the
> HD but linux complained that it did not know the filesystem type.  Mount
> did try to mount it as a MSDOS system but couldn't.
>
> there is a couple of files that he would like off of it before I reinstall
> his OS back on there.
>
> Any ideas
>
> TIA
> John Miller
>
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