[NTLUG:Discuss] floppy questions

[Bobby Sanders]

On 12/11/2010 02:27 PM, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> On 12/09/2010 02:12 PM, Stephen Davidson wrote:
>> If worse comes to worse, I think my Win98 system still works.  And I
>> may be able to resurrect a Linux laptop system with a floppy drive (I
>> think a fan just came loose when the screen hinge broke, will be
>> replacing it fairly quickly after Christmas).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Steve
>>
>> On 12/09/2010 11:38 AM, Fred James wrote:
>>> Jay Urish wrote:
>>>> Should be fat16
>>>>
>>>> On 12/9/2010 11:24 AM, Fred James wrote:
>>>>> I have some 3.5 floppy disk that were made on a Win98SE system, that
>>>>> I should like to mount and read on a Linux box. But so far I have not
>>>>> been able to get the filesystem type correct ... any clues would be
>>>>> appreciated. Thanks
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Fred James
>>> Attempting to specify 'fat', 'fat16', or 'fat32' results in the
>>> message:
>>> "mount: maybe you meant 'vfat'?"
>>> Specifying 'vfat' results in the message "mount: /dev/fd0: can't read
>>> superblock"
>>> Does that mean it is hopeless? Is there some other way to get the data
>>> off these disk?
>>> Regards
>>> Fred James
>>>
>>>
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> This might be a good solution for two reasons: Different OS and
> different floppy.  Also, have you installed mtools and tried them? 
> The other option is data recovery programs, some have free trial
> periods as long as 30 days.  The only issue is they may be made for
> hard drives and not floppies.
Didn't think about mtools.  Have used them many times in the past.  No
need to mount floppies, AIR. Good package.

Bobby Sanders