Subject: Re: bug#16885: Not recognizing FAT32 partition

From: Edward Diener <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:11:07 -0500

On 02/27/2014 08:43 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED 
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 > Hash: SHA512
 >
 > Let's have a look at your boot sector... please run sudo dd
 > if=/dev/sdc14 count=1 | xxd.
 >

dd if=/dev/sdc14 count=1 | xxd
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (512 B) copied0000000: eb58 9000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0240 
2100  .X...........@!.
0000010: 0200 0000 00f8 0000 3f00 ff00 3f00 0000  ........?...?...
, 0.030155 s, 17.0 kB/s
0000020: 6fe0 6a06 7033 0000 0000 0000 4201 0000  o.j.p3......B...
0000030: 0100 0600 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000040: 8001 2980 9941 564e 4f20 4e41 4d45 2020  ..)..AVNO NAME
0000050: 2020 4641 5433 3220 2020 33c9 8ed1 bcf4    FAT32   3.....
0000060: 7b8e c18e d9bd 007c 884e 028a 5640 b408  {......|.N..V@..
0000070: cd13 7305 b9ff ff8a f166 0fb6 c640 660f  ..s......f...@f.
0000080: b6d1 80e2 3ff7 e286 cdc0 ed06 4166 0fb7  ....?.......Af..
0000090: c966 f7e1 6689 46f8 837e 1600 7538 837e  .f..f.F..~..u8.~
00000a0: 2a00 7732 668b 461c 6683 c00c bb00 80b9  *.w2f.F.f.......
00000b0: 0100 e82b 00e9 4803 a0fa 7db4 7d8b f0ac  ...+..H...}.}...
00000c0: 84c0 7417 3cff 7409 b40e bb07 00cd 10eb ..t.<.t.........
00000d0: eea0 fb7d ebe5 a0f9 7deb e098 cd16 cd19  ...}....}.......
00000e0: 6660 663b 46f8 0f82 4a00 666a 0066 5006  f`f;F...J.fj.fP.
00000f0: 5366 6810 0001 0080 7e02 000f 8520 00b4  Sfh.....~.... ..
0000100: 41bb aa55 8a56 40cd 130f 821c 0081 fb55  A..U.V@........U
0000110: aa0f 8514 00f6 c101 0f84 0d00 fe46 02b4  .............F..
0000120: 428a 5640 8bf4 cd13 b0f9 6658 6658 6658  B.V@......fXfXfX
0000130: 6658 eb2a 6633 d266 0fb7 4e18 66f7 f1fe  fX.*f3.f..N.f...
0000140: c28a ca66 8bd0 66c1 ea10 f776 1a86 d68a  ...f..f....v....
0000150: 5640 8ae8 c0e4 060a ccb8 0102 cd13 6661  V@............fa
0000160: 0f82 54ff 81c3 0002 6640 490f 8571 ffc3  ..T.....f@I..q..
0000170: 4e54 4c44 5220 2020 2020 200d 0a4e 544c  NTLDR      ..NTL
0000180: 4452 2069 7320 6d69 7373 696e 67ff 0d0a  DR is missing...
0000190: 4469 736b 2065 7272 6f72 ff0d 0a50 7265  Disk error...Pre
00001a0: 7373 2061 6e79 206b 6579 2074 6f20 7265  ss any key to re
00001b0: 7374 6172 740d 0a00 0000 0000 0000 0000  start...........
00001c0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00001d0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00001e0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
00001f0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 007b 8e9b 0000 55aa  .........{....U.

 > On 02/27/2014 03:40 AM, Edward Diener wrote:
 >> As a follow up to my report, here is the 'parted' display for the
 >> disk in which the FAT32 partition is not being recognized using
 >> 'parted 3.1'.
 >>
 >> Model: ATA WDC WD20EARX-00P (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 2000GB Sector
 >> size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Disk
 >> Flags:
 >>
 >> Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system Flags 1
 >> 2065kB  767GB   767GB   extended                  lba 5      2097kB
 >> 53.7GB  53.7GB  logical   ext4 6      53.7GB  107GB 53.7GB
 >> logical   ext3 7      107GB   161GB   53.7GB  logical ext4 8
 >> 161GB   215GB   53.7GB  logical   ext3 9      215GB   269GB
 >> 53.7GB  logical   ext4 10      269GB   321GB   52.4GB logical
 >> ext3 11      321GB   373GB   52.4GB  logical   ext4 12 373GB
 >> 426GB   52.4GB  logical   ext3 13      426GB   485GB 59.6GB
 >> logical   ext3 14      485GB   540GB   55.1GB  logical 15
 >> 540GB   557GB   16.8GB  logical   linux-swap(v1) 16 557GB
 >> 610GB   52.5GB  logical   ext4 17      610GB   663GB 53.7GB
 >> logical   ext4 18      663GB   716GB   52.4GB  logical ext4 19
 >> 716GB   767GB   51.2GB  logical   ext4 2      1680GB 2000GB  320GB
 >> primary   ntfs            boot, hidden
 >>
 >> The FAT32 partition is Number 14. The drive is /dev/sdc on Fedora
 >> 20. If more information is wanted, please ask.