* Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive
@ 2007-05-17 16:25 99% ` Dan Farrell
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From: Dan Farrell @ 2007-05-17 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Thu, 17 May 2007 17:04:21 +0100
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by
>>running:
>>
>>dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512
>>
>>But couldn't access it whatsoever.
> Oops! I could access it, but of course I had to try it as root!
> Right, I've got it on my hard drive now, but still cannot mount it:
> ==================================
> # mount -t vfat /dev/loop2 /tmp/r1
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop2,
> missing codepage or other error
> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> dmesg | tail or so
> ==================================
because the _disk_ sda doesn't house a filesystem, the _partiton_
sda1 does. You need to find out where that partition started and ended
on the disk sda. My thought was maybe windows would format it the same
way twice, in which case you can format and then get the partitioning
information out of the device, reformat, write the part of /tmp/r1 that
coincides with the partition, cross fingers, and try mounting.
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