From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 20 19:00:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66902106564A for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:00:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.copeland@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12FBE8FC1D for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:00:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.copeland@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so624379qwb.7 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:00:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; bh=Y6bFoQ3tpNpHNBudMiLq1LJvMlEWYRsv7w6ZmA1jpYQ=; b=TtjyalGNTo73aIyhB7sTaUMgLIi+QSutWUtO3odoeYLEOz+kpkxpUSyQ6sZxufh1/o 2dU9Dh0pRZYfmZLKgAhfghCJBGJEA20Tgr62eXWzYW67zdn1PHcT4RdhUeCYtz0BjOo1 ly35lq/WlfYOtruaUN2D+8n5KrVVSTkVTB89w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type; b=a9v9od4op8jUALiXFteCize9WYg9a48Oh+lbcxj9BiC4rNIEGuD09ELNx/EBoEFWfP 1nbtmP9MC7LX/rDhb0iGRSpzgEildQZmMGeB2RjXAHf/M/zQjqUaVCrtU/22nhnF1i3t q1SVk6zo7cKerPDqTPIETrb/7h3tM0GKahR7c= Received: by 10.214.78.2 with SMTP id a2mr5184003qab.136.1229799623338; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:00:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.104? (adsl-074-245-053-043.sip.jax.bellsouth.net [74.245.53.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm12367286ywi.34.2008.12.20.11.00.21 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:00:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <494D40C8.2050201@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:00:24 -0500 From: michael User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Laine References: <494CA9E6.6050501@a1poweruser.com> <20081220082940.GA45945@free.bsd.loc> In-Reply-To: <20081220082940.GA45945@free.bsd.loc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recover data from damaged msdos fat32 partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:00:24 -0000 Jeff Laine wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 04:16:38PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: > >> I know i can mount fat32 partition using mount_msdos command. But my >> msdos fat32 partition is a bad disk with corrupted fat table. >> >> Question is can i use freebsd to recover data from this msdos fAT32 disk???? >> >> What tools do you suggest to use? >> >> > > I believe it's a job for fsck_msdosfs(8) > > google "foremost"