Thank you for all input. I have tried to mount it as vfat and get the same error. I will try the dd idea, if it works great, other wise he ends up with another 10 gig HD and that is ok too. John Miller On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Munir Nassar wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > >