mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrive. copy all the files to the linux partion. format c drive. copy back all the files. bye Suri > ---------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 6:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [LI] How to recover a fat32 partition? > > Hi all, > I accidentally used "mkswap" to create extra space on /dev/hda1 > which was the primary DOS partition and now i'm not able to access the > windows partition at all.I used some other data recovery utilies to check > if the data is not corrupted and fortunately no data is lost. > I used "fixdisktable-0.3" to fix the corrupted partition table and > it finds a linux swap header and a linuxswap partition of length 4096 > bytes at the beginning of /dev/hda1(I've first tried with the swap space > as 4kb to see if it works :-( ) > Is there any way to fix those "4096" bytes and recover my data in > the windows partitions.Please someone do help me. > yours, > vijay > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > LI is all for free speech, but this list was created for a purpose -- > to help popularise Linux in India. If your messages are counterproductive > to that purpose, your privileges to submit messages can and will be > revoked. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The LIH mailing list archives are available at: http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/wilma/linux-india-help
