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At some time some error occured while booting, and now my FAT32 drive with all my important stuff on it has been turned into a second swap drive!!! Can i ...
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  1. 03-11-2004 #1
    elldirash
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    Mandrake 9.1 suddenly turned my FAT32 drive into SWAP...

    At some time some error occured while booting, and now my FAT32 drive with all my important stuff on it has been turned into a second swap drive!!! Can i somehow turn the drive back into FAT32 without loosing my stuff??

    Please help me, I'm desperate!!!
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    this sounds very unusual in the extreem. however you should imideatly issue this command:

    umount /dev/hd*

    * being the letter assiged to whatever drive is affected

    then

    mount /dev/hd** -t fat32 /mnt/windows

    cd /mnt/windows

    ls
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    Kernel...

    I tried, but then I got the message that the kernel doesn't support fat32!? How could I use the drive before? Can this be solved?
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  4. 03-11-2004 #4
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    Rather than "fat32" try "msdos"

    Code:
    mount -t msdos /dev/hd** /mnt/windows
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    not its not fat32 or msdos you need to have vfat like this

    Code:
    mount -t vfat /dev/hd** /mnt/windows
    im pretty sure that is right but jst in case im wrong try
    vfat32 im pretty sure all it is tho is vfat hope this helps
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  6. 03-11-2004 #6
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    Yes, its "vfat". If mount complains again, after you used "vfat" in mount, try to "modprobe vfat" as root and try again.

    Good luck
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