Hello everyone,

I've got myself some nice FAT32 file system corruption.
Watch what happens if I try to list the files on that partition:

So I suspect that either me or truecrypt (this is a TC partition) managed to damage something related to that directory entry in the FAT.
I tried using testdisk on the unmounted volume and I am able to browse the files in that particular directory, so they still seem to be there. However, extraction does not seem possible (testdisk does not support that).

As the files are NOT deleted I had no luck with foremost/dls.
I guess what I'd need would be a way to either make the directory reable again or extract the contents of that directory directly from the device file.

I also tried dosfsck, I suggests to unlink all files within that particular directory from the FAT. I don't think I want to be doing that.

Any help on that matter is really really appreciated!

If you,re still also running windos me or 98 try scandisk
As I remember from the past it had the option automatic or manually repair
Scandisk was also a part of the recovery floppy


good luck

you also can run chkdsk on that partition if you have WinNT/2000/XP/Vista. You might create a DOS boot floppy or boot CD and try scandisk from that. You can find DOS boot images on the web; google for it.

Beyond that, I suggest making an image of the partition so you have a backup and can play. dosfsck is effectively asking you if it can delete the files when it asks if you want to unlink them from the FAT; if you do this, then run an undelete tool, that could work. However, if it doesn't work your problems could be compounded which is why I suggest imaging the partition first.

Since TestDisk 6.9, you can copy files from a FAT partition.
Latest 6.10-WIP can be used to recover deleted files.

Good luck,

Christophe

Thank you so much! That tip was pure gold!
testdisk 6.9 is copying the "lost" files just now!