Fat32 logical partition recovery

Phillip Susi psusi at cfl.rr.com
Tue Feb 7 02:05:56 UTC 2006


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

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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