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Yesterday I did a backup of my data, and then ran chkdsk; although it said no errors had been found, now Ubuntu does mount the disk! Well, I'm not complaining

I will send a donation right now. Thank you very much, Fiona!

(I still can use it with Apple, but not yet with Linux).

I'm afraid it doesn't work yet :(

This is what appears now when I enter TestDisk:

Disk /dev/sdb - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors

1 * FAT32 LBA 0 1 1 121600 254 63 1953520002 [LACIE]

When I select Intel partition table and go into Quick Search, this is what I get:

Disk /dev/sdb - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63

Partition Start End Size in sectors

1 * FAT32 LBA 0 1 1 121600 254 63 1953520002 [LACIE]


Should I press "Write", or go into "Deeper Search"?

(And just to ...

I have an Intel Mac. How should I proceed then?

I have proceeded as in http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Advanced_FAT_Repair#Rebuild_a_valid_FAT_boot_sector, writing the boot sector after checking I could see the data.

Now everything looks good (I attach the log file), and the USB disk seems to work fine with my Mac :) but it still doesn't mount on ...

Hi Fiona, and thank you for your quick response.

I have an Intel Mac, which I used to create the FAT32 partition.

I have proceeded with the boot diagnose, and this is the result:

Disk /dev/sdb - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
2 P DOS_FAT_32 64 ...

Hello,

I'm running TestDisk from Linux on a single-partitioned FAT32 1TB USB HDD which I used to share data between Linux, Windows and Mac. Now it's not mounting on any system.

Test Disk detected the original partition as duplicated:

Current partition structure:
Bad MAC partition, invalid block0 ...