Apok Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 i tried to access my Hd to recover files but i cant because it wont mount. how do i mount if i have a FAT or FAT32 partition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 Open the Mandriva control centre>local disks>manage disk partitions. I think you won't write to the fat32 partition but since you say you wanna recover files then hopefully it'll work out OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 You may need to explicitely force mounting, if it was uncleanly unmounted. Apart from that, you may find this usefull: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk I never did any of this, I just know it exists. Be careful. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apok Posted May 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 no, what i needed to do was not try to access the hd as a slave, but run the Live cd on the that hd as the master. then it was a sinch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 You may need to explicitely force mounting, if it was uncleanly unmounted. Not on vfat filesystems, as they are no metadata there (vfat filesystem has no such thing). You can always run a filesystem check on them, using say gparted, but for vfat there is always the risk of losing data with it, and not really much you can do-even if you run this check under windows. Unless you have a VERY good reason to use vfat in non-removable drives, thou should avoid it like plague. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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