[Hampshire] Mounting external drive.

Hi everyone,

I have a HDD in a caddy that I use to backup both Linux and Windows
data. I seldom use Windows now but found I needed to retrieve some
data from a backup. The external drive mounted okay in Windows and I
performed an edit on a .jpg file but when I decided I did not want to
save the changes on exiting the program a pop-up said the drive was
not formated did I want to format it. I said NO. Now the drive will
not mount in Windows or Linux. URGH##

Back in Linux dmesg | tail gives this when connected by FireWire.

root@vaio:~# dmesg | tail
[ 815.603633] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[ 815.603638] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 11 00 00 00
[ 815.604419] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 815.605103] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
[ 815.605322] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[ 815.605327] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 11 00 00 00
[ 815.605857] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 815.605865] sdc: sdc1
[ 815.627150] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
[ 815.627222] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 14
root@vaio:~#

Does "type 14" mean that the drive thinks it is a "14 Hidden FAT16
<3" (obtained from fdisk list of types)?

Running fdisk /dev/sda gives

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd03f6341

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *           1        9729    78148161    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

The partition table appears to be intact and I suspect the data is still okay.

Is there a way of mounting the disk as a Hidden FAT16 file system?


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Clive Woodfine