Yes, that should work just fine. I recovered a laptop which somehow ended up with a bad boot sector this way some years back. Original Message: ----------------- From: Brent Harding bharding@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:16:48 -0500 To: blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: how to access files from other machine's old Win98 partitions? I have an old box that I used to dual boot 98 and Fedora core 2 on that I want to format and only put Linux back on. I replaced it with my new machine awhile back and the file shares I was using to transfer files off the old partitions on to the new XP system went down when the power did during a storm awhile ago. The sharing just won't come back no matter what I try, so I thought maybe booting it into the Linux install that is on the second drive might help. Would it work to mount the 2 Fat32 partitions I had on the primary drive on subdirectories under my home directory and FTP the directories I want down? The network card seems to come up when I booted it with the Fedora core 2 rescue disk I had around, got the Cheapbytes set awhile back. Will my idea of this FTP method work, as I know the other machine can get on ftp sites, it should be relatively safe if I use a good password on the account whose home directory I mount the partitions in subdirectories under. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list