Lechio Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 My secondary HD is formated using the FAT32 file system. After halting my computer and booting again this partition decided to stop mounting. I get this after trying to mount it: FAT: bogus logical sector size 544 VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1. When trying to check it with "fsck.vfat" I get: File system has -769 clusters but only space for 2228222 FAT entries. The output of "fdisk -l" correctly detects the partition as being "W95 FAT32 (LBA)", and its size is also correct. What happen? Is it lost for good, or can the partition be recovered? Help. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lechio Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 Fixed!! :D Managed to salvage it using testdisk. Had to rebuild the FAT boot sector and its table. Found this page useful if anyone runs into this same problem: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Advanced_FAT_Repair Now... Time to do some backup... :happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Testdisk is a great little app. It has got me out of trouble numerous times (usually self-inflicted I might add ;)) Definitely a useful tool to have in case of emergencies. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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