On Apr 13, 12:16pm, Wes Bateman wrote:

> I have a floppy diskette that seems to be bad.  It had data on it in a
> fat32 filesystem.  I can't mount it as vfat or anything else on
> Linux and Win boxes can't see it anymore either.  What is the
> best Linux tool to try to pull data off of a diskette I can't mount?

dd

E.g,

    dd if=/dev/fd0H1440 bs=1024 count=1440 >/tmp/floppy-data

See the dd man page for more options.

Kevin