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From a total  non-expert (use at own risk)
I deleted my entire c drive (windows 98) trying to add NT to the mix, and
managed to restore the entire drive using a software program called MRECOVER
XL which was made to recover from damage from the CIH virus.  For my
purposes it worked perfectly, though there was a scary moment before
rebooting a few times and changing the bios settings back to their default
values when NO disks were detected on bootup.  Anyway the final result was a
very nice surprise.  Again, use at your own risk, as it was just a shot in
the dark for me. (tried a few commercial demos of data recovery software
with no positive results and LONG processing times.  This did the job in
minutes.
I have no idea if it would work in your case, but if you are desperate...
http://members.nbci.com/monirdomain/
look for mrecover xl at above site.
Robert
"preamp" <preamp@spamblock.dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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>
> I just installed Mandrake 7.2 and due to (I think) a stupid mistake of
> mine, I have lost a FAT32 partition. (no biggie, as it was a
> data/application volume only and I have backups of everything that can't
be
> reinstalled)
>
> What happened (again I think) is that I told the install to write the boot
> manager to /hda5 instead of /hdb5 (where Linux really was).  Anyway, now
if
> I try to mount /hda5 - this is the result...
>
> [root@localhost /root]# mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/temp -t vfat
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
>        or too many mounted file systems
>
>
> Windows (2000) thinks it is an unformatted partition.
>
> Is it gone for good...or it there a way to get it back?
>
>
>