i think you should probably use vfat instead, it is how mount knows fat32 partitions... -munir On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, johndmiller wrote: > This is not a Linux question but with all the knowledge and kindness out > there I am hoping someone will be able to give a hand. My dad's win 98 > machine got the magistr virus and an no longer boot from the HD. I have > linux on a floppy and booted the computer from that and tried to mount the > HD but linux complained that it did not know the filesystem type. Mount > did try to mount it as a MSDOS system but couldn't. > > there is a couple of files that he would like off of it before I reinstall > his OS back on there. > > Any ideas > > TIA > John Miller > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > --