Re: Help -- Data recovery
> > > 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.
>
that's right. and even better: dos scandisk always overwrites the second
fat with the first one, if it finds a difference between them. so even if
you have a working backup fat, then scandisk will screw it up. *lol*
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