On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:49:15PM -0600, 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. 1. Connect a new harddrive, with bigger size than the existing one. 2. Boot with a linux floppy, I recommend toms' floppy at http://www.toms.net/rb/ 3. Make a backup by mounting a partition on the new harddrive in /mnt and then dd if=/dev/hd<old harddisk *> of=/mnt/backup bs=2M 4. Boot with DOS and ran Norton Disk Doctor. If that doesn't fix it, it is really hosed (probably both FAT zones are corrupted). 5. If not fixed, restore the hdd image and go to data recovery specialists. florin (*) You should use the entry for the harddrive itself, like /dev/hda, /dev/hdc instead of partition like /dev/hda1... -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011215/9618345b/attachment.pgp