[SOLVED] problem with fat 32 formatted hard drive

[hatebreed]

I'm having an issue with a hard drive that has a 10 gig ntfs partition and a 190 gig fat 32 partiton. The ntfs detects and reads fine but the 190 fat 32 partition detects in the disk utility and fdisk -l but it says that it's unrecognized in the disk utility. I can't mount the drive and I don't want to format since I have stuff on the drive I would like to keep. I no longer have windows on this system so that's out the window. Is there any way to get linux to mount this partition so I can at least copy the info and then format?

[devils casper]

Before try anything in Linux, I would suggest you try Hard drive in Windows OS. Check if Windows OS recognizes 190GB partition and you can access its data.

[hatebreed]

windows recognizes both partitions. the 10 gig is the windows partition and the 190 is the data partition. just don't understand why linux won't mount the partition even though it sees it.

[hatebreed]

I ran dmesg | tail and fat: bogus number of reserved sectors and vfs:couldn't find valid fat filesystem

[D-cat]

Scandisk it in Windows.

if not available,

sudo fsck.vfat -av /dev/sd(disk)(partition)

e.g. sudo fdisk.vfat -av /dev/sdb1

[hatebreed]

I ended up formatting the drive. Nothing would work, kept erroring out with no valid fat and bad super block. Oh well, it works now.