Re: OT: corrupted FATs on an external drive

[Mikkel]

peter kostov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Samsung mp3 player that doesn't want to format his drive.
> When I run fsck on it I get:
>
> # fsck.vfat -rtlV -v /dev/sdb1
> dosfsck 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
> dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
> Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
> Boot sector contents:
> System ID "MSDOS5.0"

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> I have tried mkdosfs with no luck.
> I will appreciate very much if anyone can tell mi what to do to get it
> back to work.
>
> Peter

What kind of error did you get with mkdosfs? Did you remember to
specify that you wanted a FAT32 file system? (-F 32).

Mikkel