10.4 Disk Utility can verify and repair FAT16 disks

Aug 02, '05 08:44:00AM

Contributed by: jaydisc

Tiger only hintI noticed today that I could repair my FAT16 formatted SD card from within Disk Utility itself. The card and its associated "device" showed up in the left-hand column, just like any other OS X volume, as they usually do. However, when the disk was selected, the Verify and Repair buttons weren't grayed out (as they used to be).

Selecting Repair seems to have worked, as shown by the output log:

Verify and Repair disk "OTHER�
** /dev/disk2s1
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
** Phase 4 - Checking for Lost Files
1269 files, 82576 free (5161 clusters)
Mounting Disk

1 non HFS volume checked
      No repairs were necessary
I don't know if this works for FAT32 volumes as well...

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