I finished installing CentOS 4.4 and suddenly I can't get to my primary windows data drive, neither in Linux nor in windows. <br>
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The drive is a 40 gig quantum fireball - it is/was formatter with FAT32 as one partition. <br>
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Anyone, anyone have an idea how to recover this????? PLEASE!<br>
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Here is the specifics of what I was able to find so far - any other suggestions are welcome.<br>
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mount -t vfat /dev/hdf1 /windows/E<br>
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdf1,<br>
or too many mounted file systems<br>
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from dmesg:<br>
hdf: QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS40.0, ATA DISK drive<br>
.........<br>
hdf: max request size: 128KiB<br>
hdf: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1902KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(66)<br>
hdf: cache flushes not supported<br>
hdf: hdf1<br>
.....<br>
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors<br>
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdf1.<br>
.....<br>
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors<br>
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdf1.<br>
FAT: invalid media value (0x01)<br>
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdf.<br>
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors<br>
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdf1.<br>
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors<br>
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdf1.<br>
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>From fdisk:<br>
fdisk -l /dev/hdf<br>
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Disk /dev/hdf: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes<br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
/dev/hdf1 * 1 4866 39086113+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)<br>
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>From fsck:<br>
fsck.vfat /dev/hdf<br>
dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN<br>
Currently, only 2 FATs are supported, not 191.<br>
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fsck /dev/hdf1 <br>
OR <br>
fsck.vfat -r /dev/hdf1<br>
fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)<br>
dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN<br>
Cluster size is zero.<br>
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fsck.vfat -r -t /dev/hdf1<br>
dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN<br>
Cluster size is zero.<br>
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Please help!<br>
Thanks<br>