Fat32 logical partition recovery

[Pablo Valerio Polonia]

Phillip Susi wrote:

>Assuming that the only thing that got messed up is the partition tag,
>then you should still be able to mount the fat32 partition in linux just
>fine exactly as before.

But i can't

$dmesg | tail

[4300949.494000] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[4300949.494000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda5.

$sudo mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /audio

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5


> If the partition was actually reformatted as
>reiserfs, then I hope you have a backup.

No, the logical partition was left untouched, just the primary
partition was recreated.

I don't know how recreating the primary partition made impossible to
mount the logical fat32.

Pablo Valerio Polonia wrote:
> Hi
>
> My disk had 2 fat32 partitions, a primary partition and a logical one.
>
> To create a new reiserfs partition i deleted the primary partition,
> but the logical fat32 was left untouched...
>
> This is the output from parted:
>
> Here is the output:
>
> Using /dev/hda
> (parted) p
> Disk geometry /dev/hda: 0.000-95396,273 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor Beggining End Type File System Sinal
> 1 0,031 20983,337 primary fat32 lba
> 2 20983,337 26701,787 primary reiserfs
> 4 26701,787 95393,781 extended
> 6 26701,849 31949,582 logical reiserfs
> 7 31949,613 32420,236 logical linux-swap
> 5 32420,237 95393,781 logical
>
> But now i can't access the fat32 logical partition, can i recovery it?
>
> --
> Pablo Valério Polônia
>


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Pablo Valério Polônia