I am following example on Testdisk site though mine looks different so please am seeking advice
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
Disk Utility in Mac Mojave made my FAT32 look empty (I was trying to resize but never mind that),
I found lots of files with names and path, using Recuva deep scan
but I would like to revive partition (which mounts) in situ as a whole, so am trying Testdisk which shows:
Disk /dev/rdisk5 - 3000 GB / 2794 GiB - 5860533167 sectors
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 P EFI System 40 409639 409600 [EFI System Partition]
2 P Mac HFS 409640 1953534631 1953124992 [Seagate]
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 255 (FAT) != 1 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 32 (FAT) != 1 (HD)
3 P MS Data 1953796776 5860270983 3906474208 [DOS_FAT_32_Untitled_2] [SEAGATE FAT]
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FAT partition looks empty
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Re: FAT partition looks empty
You can try TestDisk, Advanced, List.
If all your files are missing, try TestDisk, Analyse, Quick Search, use 'p' to list the files from each partition. If your partition is missing, try Deeper Search. To recover your partition, use the arrow keys to switch the partition to P(rimary).
Once all the partition you want to keep/recover as listed as P(rimary), go on next screen, choose Write, confirm, Quit
If all your files are missing, try TestDisk, Analyse, Quick Search, use 'p' to list the files from each partition. If your partition is missing, try Deeper Search. To recover your partition, use the arrow keys to switch the partition to P(rimary).
Once all the partition you want to keep/recover as listed as P(rimary), go on next screen, choose Write, confirm, Quit
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JohnPatrick
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Re: FAT partition looks empty
Thank you CGrenier