heya, On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:07:46PM -0800, jcunningham@engine8.com wrote: > hi list, i've been reading tons of docs on mkfs and mtools because i need > to make a copy of a somewhat corrupt ms floppy which is vfat but can't > find the command to do so. so, how does one format a floppy to have a vfat > partition and not just an msdos fat or fat32 partition? i re-rolled my > kernel to support vfat but still cant get it working. am i missing the > obvious here? first of all, if you're dealing with a failing media, the first thing to do is get the data off the disk! do dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img and then you have what you can get off the floppy in a 1.44 mb image on your hard drive. you can then set up this file on the loopback device and do things like fsck it or mount it or mtools or whatever, just like it were a hard drive or floppy device, and you can make a bajillion copies of it and not worry about destroying it by trying to save it. hth sean
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