Christopher Hotchkiss wrote:
>>>Warning message: Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause Severe
>>>filesystem damage.
>>>Do you want to continue (y/n)?
>>>Action aborted by myself by use of No answer. Sorry can not risk the
>>>potential failure.
>>>
>>>
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>>>>>As originally set up partitions were as follows per cat /etc/fstab
>>>>>/dev/hda5 /home/trunk/Common_Dara vfat
>>>>> iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>Since you have had the filesystem setup as vfat, fsck.ext2 wil not
>work. FYI it wont do anything harmful if you don't have the filesystem
>mounted. I REALLY hate to say this though, have you tried sticking a
>hard drive with windows on it into the computer, and seeing if windows
>scandisk can work some magic?
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Scandisk in windows gives you totally useless files and will definitly
make it
harder to recover data. Look at some of the Windows data recovery sites.
Scandisk is the last thing you want to do if the data is important to you.
I did not find any free really useful data recovery software for Windows.
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