I have a thumb drive which is formatted to FAT32 but not recognized in Windows.
Using "testdisk" I can find the partition OK, but testdisk reports:
Disk /dev/sdc - 30 GB / 28 GiB - CHS 29327 64 32 Current partition structure: Partition Start End Size in sectors
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 255 (FAT) != 64 (HD) Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 63 (FAT) != 32 (HD) 1 * FAT32 LBA 0 1 1 29327 63 32 60063712 [DATADISC]
If I select the partition and view files then i see what I expect to see, and I can manually copy off individual files from there. So from a data recovery perspective I have everything I need.
However, if I try writing the partition information back using testdisk the thumb drive is still not recognised in Windows and if I reopen it in testdisk it reports the same issues.
I tried changing geometry to 255/63 as testdisk suggested, but then analyse says "Bad relative sector".
What do I need to do so that the disk is recognised in Windows?
Mark
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 10:36:32AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
What do I need to do so that the disk is recognised in Windows?
My suggestion would be to nuke the partition table entirely and format it in windows, I've had very bad experiences with getting Windows to recognise flash drivers that were partitioned and formatted elsewhere.
The other possibility is that its' a hardware fault?
Adam --