You have to mount your FAT32 as "vfat" so Linux can work with the
Windows long file names.

"mount -t vfat /dev/hdb0 /mnt/win" , for example

Hope this helps.
Francisco

BTW, Linux is cool!!! ;-)


Pic Dude wrote:

>Can any Win & Linux expert help me with this problem?...
>
>- Win2K (NTFS) drive crashed.
>- Mounted it as secondary drive to another Win2K machine,
>   but Win2K couldn't recognize the partitions.
>- So instead, I mounted as secondary to a Linux installation
>   and it was able to read the drive and copy the files over
>   to the Linux (Fat32) drive.  Verified that I can read the
>   files properly once transferred to the Linux drive, and
>   that the filenames and extensions are good.
>- Now, I boot up a clean Win2K installation with the Linux
>   (Fat32) drive as a secondary (now holding the recovered
>   files), but all file extensions are showing up as...
>         FILE1.{_1
>         FILE2.{_2
>   The filenames themselves are okay, just the extensions
>   are messed up as <curly-brace>, <underscore>, and a
>   sequential number.
>- Booted into Linux again, and the file extensions are
>   still good.
>
>Anyone know why?  All I need now is to get the recovered
>files from the Linux Fat32 FS to a Win2K (NTFS) installation.
>
>Thanks.
>-Neil.
>
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