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by mifritscher
23 Mar 2022, 09:37
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: FAT 32: Relink directories to Main directory?
Replies: 5
Views: 9112

Re: FAT 32: Relink directories to Main directory?

Many thanks - "expert" mode was the hint I needed :-)

And I can confirm that it does what i should - I programmed a PoC in Java yesterday, and the results are almost the same ;)

The last step is to correlate the bad sector map from ddrescue (saved me already multiple times...) with the affected ...
by mifritscher
21 Mar 2022, 21:33
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: FAT 32: Relink directories to Main directory?
Replies: 5
Views: 9112

Re: FAT 32: Relink directories to Main directory?

Sorry, meant boot sector recovery, fixed this.

Many FAT repair tools, like dosfsck or chkdsk, have the ability to relink lost fat chains (which are often called lost cluster chains as well) - which causes to create the (im)famous FSCKxxxx files in / or /FOUND.000.
Scandisk from Windows 9x, at least ...
by mifritscher
21 Mar 2022, 13:41
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: FAT 32: Relink directories to Main directory?
Replies: 5
Views: 9112

FAT 32: Relink directories to Main directory?

Scenario:

* 1000 GB HDD with about 100k files
* 200 MB defective Sektors
* Bootsector + FAT seem to be ok
* Main directory is broken (had only about 10 Entries)
* Got a complete image from the disk (with dd_rescue, have also a list of defective sectors))

I need a functionality Scandisk from Win98 ...