Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system

[Joe Duke]

   If the FAT32 volume resides on /dev/hda2 I doubt that overwritting the
MBR is going to help.  If the partition table is corrupt, you'll overwrite
it with the new MBR, which will create a new set of headaches.  The fact
that 'fdisk' sees the partition leads me to suspect that either the Volume
Boot Record or FAT are corrupt.  I would recommend using a tool such as
Norton Diskedit to examine the VBR and FAT and see what is reported.  If the
1st FAT is corrupt, you can copy the 2nd FAT to the clipboard and write it
back to the 1st FAT.  If you do that, make sure to syncronize the File
Allocation Tables before you exit.

- JD

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jludwig" <wralphie at comcast.net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora mount a corrupted Win Fat32 (vfat) file system


> On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 15:05, Guolin Cheng wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> >  I’m trying to recover data from a corrupted Win Fat32 file system
> > using Fedora, with a command “mount –t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt”, but the
> > operation fails. I’m pretty sure it is a fat32 file system because
> > “fdisk” proves a very honest gentleman J, Now the problem is, How to
> > recover data from a corrupted fat32 file system?  I run a “hdparm” on
> > the hard disk to scan bad blocks and proves that the hard disk is
> > error-free.
> >
> >
> >
> >  Any suggestions/ideas are greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >  Thanks.
> >
> >  --Guiolin Cheng
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> Off a dos floppy with the dos fdisk try to mount c:\. If you can, then
> try scandisk. If you can't mount c:\ then fdisk \mbr.
> This will overwrite the MBR I.E. Grub/lilo.
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