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The title pretty much says it! You can use Disk Utilty in Panther to repair MS-DOS (FAT32) formatted disks.
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Use Disk Utility to repair FAT32 formatted disks
...and do it when nothing else will. After several days of trying to recover 250 GB of irreplaceable data with Windows (only briefly) and Linux, I mounted the disk in a 1394 enclosure and was able to to lift an image off and salvage 100% of the data with my PowerBook.
Now I don't even bother with Windows and Linux tools... just a WiebeTech ComboDock and my Mac.
Use Disk Utility to repair FAT32 formatted disks
I specifically use their product and personally love it. I'm starting to look for a ribbon "extension" (m/F) type cable as I think it would be easier/quicker to plug in drives (my only complaint -- bent a pin on one drive). It's too easy to mount Windows boxes to harvest data for migration (my use of it :).
Use Disk Utility to repair FAT32 formatted disks
I stumbled upon this a few weeks ago when tryin to repair/restore my brothers PC formatted first gen iPod. It was quite the shock and extremely useful. It helped save the ipod.
Use Disk Utility to repair FAT32 formatted disks
Yes, The apple disk repair does do an excellent job, and FASTER too! hahahaha, Nice work Apple! :)
Use Disk Utility to repair FAT32 formatted disks
This capabillity is also good for Flash drives. By having a USB Flash drive formatted to FAT 32 you can use it in either Mac OS X or Windows 2000 or XP without drivers. Great for file transfers between platforms.
Can't repair disks with bad sectors, though
I have a FAT32 formatted disk that has a few bad sectors in a directory. When trying to verify or repair this disk, Disk Utility stops because of the read error, with the following message in its Log:
Unable to read directory (Input/output error)The tool should offer an option to ignore read errors. Other tools do that, too, e.g. dosfsck for Linux. |
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