Fat32 logical partition recovery

[Phillip Susi]

Try sudo mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda5 /audio.  If that works, then you 
DID reformat that partition, even if you didn't intend to, and so the 
data on it is gone.

Pablo Valerio Polonia wrote:
> 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.
>