Re: Help -- Data recovery
Quoting Oswald Buddenhagen (ob6@inf.tu-dresden.de):
> > There is also usually a backup of the dos fat 6*512 bytes into the
> > partition:
> this is a copy of the boot sector, not the fat.
>
> > Possibly this location could be different depending on the parameters
> > used when formatting, the size, the fat size (12, 16, 32). But there
> > should be a backup somewhere.
> >
> it might be dependand from the formatting options, but it is definitively
> specific to fat32. fat12/16 has not even a rudiment of such features.
Just an aside - the joke about the backup copy of the FAT is that it
immediately follows the original, so if you hit one, chances are you've
hit the other too.
Cheers,
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