Thread: rescuing FAT32 partition "Logical sector size is zero"

hi, in process of resizing fat32 partition on external hard drive gparted when happened (not sure what) , it's not recognised....

running dosfsck comes error "logical sector size zero" , quits. if check disk utility says partition 'healthy' whatever means....

ideas if can rescued?

post this:

sudo sfdisk -l -us

backup current partition table device in case. if not sdb change correct device.
sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sdb > parts.txt

, take testdisk see says, may able revert old partition table?

if not rebooted recover partition:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...7&postcount=34
used testdisk see caveats in post#7:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1669418

repairs including testdisk info & link testdisk, testdisk in repository , on repaircds
http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/p21.html
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/...rdeletedfiles/
download testdisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/testdisk

instructions
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/testdisk_step_by_step
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/menu_analyse

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