Corrupt Superblock on /home - semi-hijack

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 10:14 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 10 February 2006 21:28, James Wilkinson wrote:
> >
> > You might like to investigate
> > mount -vt ext3 -o sb=131072 /dev/hdb1 /misc/
> > which should use an alternative superblock.
> >
> Is anything similar possible on a fat32 drive?  I need to try to rescue data 
> from a 'foreign' drive.  'fdisk -l' lists it as a single large fat32 
> partition, but trying to mount it as 'mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/temp' 
> tells me that there is a bad superblock.
> 
> Anne
> 
FAT does not use multiple superblocks like Linux does (ext2/ext3, and
similar filesystems)

That said, have you tried to run fsck.vfat on the drive?
It might help.