On Saturday 11 February 2006 10:14, 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. > I've found the TeskDisk utility, and tried it. I got as far as rebuilding the Boot Sector and being able to list the directories, but it says it is unable to write the new Boot Sector. Without that I don't see how the data is recoverable. Any advice, anyone, please? Anne
