Re: How did linux corrupt hda1 (C: drive) fat16 filesystem?
Try "fdisk /dev/hda"
the 'p' option prints the partition table info, you might find useful
stuff there.
HTH
Romain
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, M David Tilson wrote:
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> 550 <debian-users@list.debian.org>... Host unknown (Name server: list.debian.org: host not found)
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> Tried to cp a file from hda2 (linux) to hda1 (fat16). Now lilo
> cannot find anything on c: to boot.
>
> If I boot DOS6.2 with bootfloppy, c: looks EMPTY.
>
> However, linux finds files and folders on /mnt/hda1; but the
> names appear corrupted.
>
> Any way to recover? I've tried some Norton utilities in DOS,
> but no joy so far.
>
> TIA,
>
> dave
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