On Thu, 17 May 2007 17:04:21 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by >>running: >> >>dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512 >> >>But couldn't access it whatsoever.
> Oops! I could access it, but of course I had to try it as root! > Right, I've got it on my hard drive now, but still cannot mount it: > ================================== > # mount -t vfat /dev/loop2 /tmp/r1 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop2, > missing codepage or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so > ================================== because the _disk_ sda doesn't house a filesystem, the _partiton_ sda1 does. You need to find out where that partition started and ended on the disk sda. My thought was maybe windows would format it the same way twice, in which case you can format and then get the partitioning information out of the device, reformat, write the part of /tmp/r1 that coincides with the partition, cross fingers, and try mounting. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
