Re: [orca-list] partition help

["Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona" <hank smith966 gmail com>]

it is supposed to be my uefy partition
it is on my main hard drive.
thanks
Hank

On 10/25/2015 12:36 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> Gparted has  a repair option, but I don't remember if it will at all apply to this case.
> What caused the problem? Is the bat filesystem on a usb stick?
> Unless the gpparted option does aply I don't know of any GUI tools for this kind of thing.
> Google is your friend in this kind of situration.
> Here are some things to start with. You may be best using dd or ddrescue to copy the partition somewhere in 
> case of further corruption, and then:
>
> I copied the below from
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilesystemTroubleshooting
>
> dosfstools - FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 (vfat) filesystem
>
>     In order to create and check/repair these Microsoft(TM)'s filesystems, dosfstools package needs to be 
> installed. Similarly to ext filesystems' tools,
>     dosfsck has softlinks too - fsck.msdos and fsck.vfat. Options, however, vary slightly.
>
>    dosfsck cheatsheet
>
>     These examples will use FAT32 and /dev/sdc1
>
>
> fsck.vfat -n /dev/sdc1 - a simple non-interactive read-only check
>
>       fsck.vfat -a /dev/sdc1 - checks the file system and fixes non-interactively. Least destructive approach 
> is always used.
>
>     fsck.vfat -r /dev/sdc1 - interactive repair. User is always prompted when there is more than a single 
> approach to fixing a problem.
>
> fsck.vfat -l -v -a -t /dev/sdc1 - a very verbose way of checking and repairing the filesystem 
> non-interactively. The -t parameter will
> mark unreadable
>         clusters as bad, thus making them unavailable to newly created files and directories.
>
>     Recovered data will be dumped in the root of the filesystem as fsck0000.rec, fsck0001.rec, etc. This is 
> similar to CHK files created by scandisk
> and
>     chkdisk on MS Windows.
>
> Here's another link that talks about testdisk.
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Advanced_FAT_Repair
>
> B.H.
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>
>    Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona wrote:
> Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:24:04AM -0700
>
> > Hello is there a fix for the following?
> > File system:    FAT32, 0xff (Xenix Bad Block Table)
> > if so how do I fix this?  I use gui programs not kli if I can help it
> > Hank
> >
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