Mounting an old disk
Greetings, I'm trying to mount a very old disk (maybe before 1996). If I try mount /dev/fd0, mount returns that it cannot determine the filesystem type.
I did a dd if=/dev/fd0 to a file and then od -s file |more. What I get in the beginning is: 0000003 IBM 3.3 0000726 IBMBIO COMIBMDOS COM 0023000 TEXTUS BAT 0023141 1970 0041200 AUTOEXECBAT 0041240 CATALOG CAT 0041300 UNTITLEDCAT 0041340 PROVA CAT 0041500 MORALE 0041540 FILE0001CHK 0041600 FILE0002CHK 0041640 FILE0003CHK 0041740 TEXTUS BAT 0044100 ENUNCIA EXE 0044140 ORTO EXE 0044200 ENUGEN EXE 0044240 ORTOGEN EXE ..etc... So am I to suppose this is an ibm dos disk? The friend that asked me to check this out has try using the disk in WinXP and I think the disk did not load. Is there a way I could extract the files from the image and write them to a new disk? I don't even know if the disk is damaged. Thanks for any help. |
I'm not sure, but if I were you I would:
1) Make sure you have dosfs support in your kernel - otherwise you won't be able to mount it 2) On an image of the disk, maybe running fsck.msdos will make it mountable 3) Maybe the sleuth kit (http://www.sleuthkit.org) can help |
Have you tried mounting it as a dos disk? Something like, as root
Code:
mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /Mounting/Place Code:
man mount |
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