Re: Lost file allocation table on USB hard drive

Try testdisk - "TestDisk checks and recovers lost partitions"

should be directly available from ubuntu repos

--Raj.



On 05/13/2010 02:38 PM, james terris wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I have an Ubuntu server that I use for storing files on.
> It's a small atom machine with a USB hard drive attached to it.
> Last week I couldn't access the folder that the USB drive is mounted
> to and when I run fdisk on it I get the following message:
> Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
> fdisk does identify the correct size of the drive but says that there
> are no partitions on it.
> 
> I've been poking around online but haven't found anything too useful yet 
> so I was wondering what everyone's recommendation was.
> 
> I ran the command gpart but it couldn't find any partitions.
> 
> I looked into the commands rescuept and fixdisktable but I couldn't
> figure out how to install them on my system (even trying to build them
> from source).
> 
> The drive powers up ok and the system detects it correctly if I turn it off/on.
> 
> So, if anyone has any pointers about how to rebuild the fat table that would be great.
> 
> thx,
> james
> 
> 
> 
>       
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