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Topic: large fat32 drive size error, seagate 750g df shows 110gb

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curaga

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Posted: July 20 2008,17:15

You might try to use dosfsck on it still. In the default mode it handles the drive as readonly, it can't do a thing to it without the -r or -a switches, so you at least would find out if there are errors.

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Posted: July 21 2008,16:41

id guessed dosfstools.dsl wasnt on the iso, but it seems to have dissapeared from the mydsl browser.

lucky i have a copy elsewhere, just have to find it.

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Posted: July 21 2008,23:11

ok, tried dosfsck and fsck.vfat and get more or less the same message.

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dosfsck 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)
dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN
No FSINFO sector
1) Create one
2) Do without FSINFO
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Filesystem has 22891382 clusters but only space for 6110078 FAT entries.

i have tried both 1&2 and it refuses to create an fsinfo tab. even fsck.vfat -lva /dev/sda1quits soon after starting

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