Re: Ever read a Crashed Windows 95 disk in Linux?

[Eric Windisch <southpark@nni.com>]

First (obviously) make sure that /dev/hdb1 is your windows95 filesystem.
Second, you didn't give us the full command you used... the correct
command should be:

mount /dev/hdb1 /mountpoint -t vfat;

Otherwise, you might want to try to mount it read-only.  If this doesn't
work make sure that vfat is either compiled into your kernel or the
modules are loaded.

-Eric Windisch

Ben Dugan wrote:
> 
> I have a crashed Windows 95 disk that has some data on it that I'd
> rather not just lose.  The outlook is not good at this point, though,
> since (1) the drive sounds awful when it runs, and (2) I can't even
> mount it using the Linux mount command (as either msdos or vfat-- I
> think its should be vfat).  I get the message:
> 
>  mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> I strongly suspect its the 'bad superblock' because the original
> symptom was an inability to boot (Win95), and I've tried both msdos and
> vfat, and there's only one other device mounted.
> 
> So I just thought I'd ask if any of the PLUG gang have tricks that
> might help.
> 
> I realize it might make sense to approach this with a Windows 95
> system, but (a) I don't have one and (b) I am more comfortable trying
> low-level things with Linux.
> 
> Thanks for any tips!
> 
> Ben Dugan
> 
> 
> 
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