Linux Tools for rebuilding a FAT16 or FAT32 file system

[Darrell Burkey]

> > Can anyone point me to tools that can work with & rebuild FAT16 and
> > FAT32 filesystems under Linux [any distro, I will install what I have
> > to]?

There are dozens of shareware products that deal with such catastrophies.
Why complicate the matter by crossing over O/Ses?

> Ummm.  If the FAT table was changed, you probably lost all the
> information therein.  Which means that the clusters on the disk now
> have no relation to each other, and your files are broken up into 4kb
> chunks.  However you may be lucky.  If the files aren't fragmented you
> might be able to do a 'strings /dev/hdxx' and start playing jigsaw
> puzzles.

Arent't there two copies of the FAT tables? I was under the impression that
was how the recovery programs managed to rebuild it.

Cheers.

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