On Friday 14 December 2001 21:49, 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

Try mounting it as type vfat. If that doesn't work then its probably really, 
really hosed.
-- 
Jack Ungerleider
jack at jacku.com