Hi Adrian; On Sun, 2006-11-06 at 15:57 -0400, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote: > (A bit late, but here's my hopefully-helpful suggestion.) > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:30:34PM -0400, William Case wrote: > > > > > > mount -t vfat [or msdos] /mnt/windows /dev/hdc can't mount > > > > > disk; error says file system unrecognized. > > > > > > > > your arguments are backwards. > > > > > > > > mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/windows > > > > They are backwards here, but they weren't used backwards on his > > machine -- just a bad memory and typing too quickly. > > And you're certain you / your friend was trying to mount /dev/hdc1 and > not /dev/hdc, right? Yes,thanks. Since the original post we have managed to: re-format and re-partition another old hard drive; download the Autopsy suite from STD-Knoppix; dd the old disk image to the other harddisk; and, view the files on the newly formatted disk. Last I heard, he had not yet done anything with the files he can now list/see. I promised I would tell how it went. Sorry I forgot. -- Regards Bill