OT: corrupted FATs on an external drive

peter kostov fedora at light-bg.com
Sun Apr 1 18:43:49 UTC 2007


Robin Laing wrote:
> peter kostov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a Samsung mp3 player that doesn't want to format his drive.
>> When I run fsck on it I get:
>>
>> # fsck.vfat -rtlV -v /dev/sdb1
>> dosfsck 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
>> dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
>> Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
>> Boot sector contents:
>> System ID "MSDOS5.0"
>> Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
>>       512 bytes per logical sector
>>      4096 bytes per cluster
>>         1 reserved sector
>> First FAT starts at byte 512 (sector 1)
>>         2 FATs, 16 bit entries
>>    126464 bytes per FAT (= 247 sectors)
>> Root directory starts at byte 253440 (sector 495)
>>       512 root directory entries
>> Data area starts at byte 269824 (sector 527)
>>     63127 data clusters (258568192 bytes)
>> 63 sectors/track, 255 heads
>>        50 hidden sectors
>>    505550 sectors total
>> Starting check/repair pass.
>> Both FATs appear to be corrupt. Giving up.
>>
>> I have tried mkdosfs with no luck.
>> I will appreciate very much if anyone can tell mi what to do to get 
>> it back to work.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
>
> If the mp3 player isn't working at all, try to check and see if you 
> can change the drive partition(s).  Doing this may fix the problem.
>
> Also check to see if there is new software for the mp3 player as this 
> could fix the problem.
>
Thanks for helping Robin. Your idea for updating the software has led me 
on the right way.

Peter




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