Re: [Hampshire] Mounting external drive.

Hi

Take the drive out of the caddy and mount it in your desktop. Use testdisk to
get back the partition data. You have the dreaded USB disk FAT destroyed by
operating system problem.

John Eayrs

On Thursday 26 February 2009 11:21:26 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?
>
>
> --
> Clive Woodfine