linuxgeek: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: FAT32 file recovery

--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, james lee <james0dhas@...> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:04 PM, grantrocket2 <mars_rover@...>wrote:
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> > I had a large file of movies (5gb) and they just vanished one day.
> > If I look at the free space on the drive it's self it gives me 332 mb free.
> > If I highlight all the files and click properties, it totals 2.1 gb. The
> > drive is 8gb in size. I know my files are there, Linux just can't "see"
> > them. Running testdisk gives
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> > Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 255 (FAT) != 247 (HD)
> > Warning: Incorrect number of sectors per track 63 (FAT) != 62 (HD)
> > 1 * FAT32 0 1 2 1022 53 46 15654177 [name 8GB]
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> > Warning: Bad ending sector (CHS and LBA don't match)
> >
> > *replaced my name with the word name for security....
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> > These are my only backup of these movies so I would really like to recover
> > them. I'll make a backup as soon as I get them back.
> > Thanks.
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> >
> > send me what distro you are using?
> >
> what happens if you type in terminal fdisk-l command..
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Using linux mint 9, fdisk -l [disk] well i'm kinda stupid so I couldent figure out how to input my disk.