[SOLVED] fat32-partition weirdness

Eradest · 2010-01-04 09:38:50

Hi arch-folks!
I've got a 1TB (~931 GiB) external hdd of which 731 GiB are NTFS-formatted (for interoperability with win) and 200 GiB FAT32 (for macs).

The data on the fat-partition was all ok and could be read in linux. After I once booted Win, all the data was lost, both in win and linux. Strangely, "df" and the windows-explorer both say there is still 115 of the 200 GiB used.

# fdisk -l /dev/sdc

Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe8900690

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *           1       95493   767047491    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc2           95494      121601   209712510    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

# df -h /dev/sdc2
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc2             200G  115G   85G  58% /media/FATDATEN

# du -h -c /media/FATDATEN/
32K     /media/FATDATEN/System Volume Information/_restore{7BD8C0E5-563E-4D43-8C06-A333E291B668}/RP33
48K     /media/FATDATEN/System Volume Information/_restore{7BD8C0E5-563E-4D43-8C06-A333E291B668}
64K     /media/FATDATEN/System Volume Information
80K     /media/FATDATEN/
80K     total

Any ideas?

Last edited by Eradest (2010-01-05 15:24:26)

R00KIE · 2010-01-04 18:25:17

Do a backup of the partition with dd and try to run chkdisk in windows, if that doesn't work and the data you had there is important then try to use data recovery programs (testdisk is a good candidate).

Eradest · 2010-01-05 15:26:25

Ok, problem solved. The point was that the Windows XP wasn't booted but just resumed from hibernate. This seems to be a known problem with Win.

For me, a "chkdsk /F" on Windows placed all the lost data in a "FOUND.000" folder where I just have to rename them.

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#1 2010-01-04 09:38:50

[SOLVED] fat32-partition weirdness

#2 2010-01-04 18:25:17

Re: [SOLVED] fat32-partition weirdness

#3 2010-01-05 15:26:25

Re: [SOLVED] fat32-partition weirdness

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