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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 12:50:07 +0100
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On Friday 18 May 2007 10:24, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:

> You still seem to be missing the correct syntax. (note: this might not
> solve your problem, and even issuing the right command might be of no
> help, but since you asked for it, here it is).
[snip . . . ]

Thanks!  Things don't always go as they should when I rush through commands=
 -=20
especially those I am not familiar with.  It's crystal clear now.

> # mount -t vfat -o loop /dev/loop2 /tmp/r1
>
> uses an incorrect syntax for the specification of the loopback device
> (which is optional anyway), and does not tell where to mount the
> filesystem. So, what you probably want is
>
> # mount -t vfat -o loop=3D/dev/loop2 /tmp/r1 /mnt/somewhere
>
> or just simply
>
> # mount -t vfat -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/somewhere

I am getting the same errors as before:
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
# mount -t vfat -o loop /tmp/r1 /mnt/sda1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

No matter if I use vfat, msdos, or ntfs.  It seems to me that I need to=20
reconstruct the hex of the partition table - but don't know how to do this=
=20
and testdisk does not see the device to recover previous partition tables.

What now?
=2D-=20
Regards,
Mick

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