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[Jordon Bedwell]

On 6/8/2011 12:12 PM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> Is it possible I could repartition this drive to a media disk using 
> Gparted without loosing my files if they are still on it?

First, lets take a step back and tell you to do what nobody else said:
sudo fsck.vfat -a -l -v /dev/sdc1

[If it returns Logical sector size is zero] STOP READING AND GO TO 2

After it's finished, try to mount it again:
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1

I read back the entire thread (and admittedly might have missed a post
saying it) and nobody suggested actually properly checking the
filesystem.  Doing a fsck will give us some information and trying to
mount it (like everyone else suggested) after will give us more
information. Post the output of both back to me so I can see what's
going on.

[2] BELOW

If you REALLY want to see what's going on my suggestion is you use a
Windows machine to repair it.  Boot into any Windows 7 machine and do
the whole business to get to the terminal (the CD does have one) and
then do:

fsutil fsinfo drives
chkdsk [drive]: /f

I have a feeling you have a damaged file system as this is typical of a
damaged file system, the errors you got and the whole 9 yards.  So you
might just skip using fsck.vfat and simply use Windows to chkdsk.

[EXTRA]

There is another way that we can replace and repair the file system with
Linux but first, lets take it easy and see if we can't get it working
this way.