On 27/06/02 04:59 +0000, Mitul Limbani wrote: > I guess your HDD might have developed bad blocks... > this happnd with me also previously with my 2G Hdd...which got resolved > after i booted with a 98 bootable floppy and ran a fdisk deleted the vfat > partition n formatted the same ... i got a few bad blocks but now my that > HDD is running smooth .. > > and the reason why i am writing this is eventually i also used to get this > similar type of vfat mounting errors ... while trying to mount the > partition on a linux box... > > try to get hold of a win9x bootable and run scandisk on your hdd ...may be > it might detect the bad blocks n mark them properly ... u never know > microsoft ;) >
In my case I had the very same prob. & did the very samething as I had dual boot of Linux & Win, but after nearly a month of working my HDD crashed, so please be careful & backup all your data. -Rupesh _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
