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.
