Re: [Hampshire] Mounting external drive.

Clive Woodfine wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>
Sorry, not really an answer to your question, but if you can't get
either OS to read the drive again I recommend TestDisk to recover the data:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Worked very well when my boss had an unreadable FAT formatted external HDD.

James