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Formartting SD Card - Corrupted FAT32 Filesystem

I have a corrupted SD Card whose filesystem is FAT32. I tried the following stuff but i am still able to see the contents in the SD card. I can neither add new files nor can i delete any files from ...
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Rescue data from corupted FAT32 micro SD card

I used it on android and it just stopped working. I want to extract data before I format it. Here's the output of sudo dosfsck -w -r -l -a -v -t /dev/mmcblk0p1: fsck.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07) fsck.fat ...
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FAT to ntfs on an empty disk

Is it possible to convert FAT to ntfs on empty disk with Linux commands or windows is the only option?
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fsck.vfat never actually repairs anything

I have a slightly messed-up 64GB USB drive formatted with FAT32, and would like to fix it on Ubuntu 18.04. First attempt: $ sudo fsck.vfat /dev/sdc1 fsck.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24) FATs differ but ...
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Why can't I unset the executable bit on my files in a Veracrypt vfat partition?

In a mounted Veracrypt file, which df -Th shows to be vfat, my files are always executable. $ ls -l x.txt gives -rwx------ ... x.txt How do I make it not-executable? chmod -x x.txt doesn't work, not ...
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The "modified timestamp" changed via a cut and paste

I needed to copy a file from one Ubuntu system to another Ubuntu system. I checked the "modified timestamp" of the original file and it was April 21 15:27:31. I copied and pasted to a removable Flash ...
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What is this tiny fat32 partition? [duplicate]

I installed Ubuntu 18.10 on a laptop. When I opened Gparted I saw this little partition and do not know what it is (see image). Gparted also has a warning about it: Unable to read the contents of ...
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How to share a FAT32 partition between Ubuntu 18 and vbox Windows 7

I have this disk setup: Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 195944447 195942400 93,4G 83 Linux /dev/sda2 195944448 937701375 741756928 353,7G ...
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WinUSB gives a exit code: 256

I have Ubuntu 14.10 with WinUSB and I have a Windows 8.1 Pro ISO with a 4GB SD Card with an empty FAT32 partition. Everytime I try to use it, it says "Installation failed, exit code: 256". How do I ...
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How to format Hard drive NTFS and convert it to FAT32?

As the question, I have some NTFS HD in my ubuntu server, some has few partitions, I would like to fully format them, create only 1 partition and convert it to FAT32. Thanks
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FAT32 R/W performance too low for a big file transfer

I have mounted FAT32 formatted USB storage to ext4 FS and executed a large file copy operation. Observed that FAT32 R/W performance to ext4 partition is very much slower than same ext4 partitions. ...
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How do I repair a Fat 32 Filesystem Partition "input/output error"

Some how the partition (Dev/sda2) partition got deleted. So I use TestDisk to bring it back... The first time I did it it erase the whole hard drive... The second time it did restore the partition ...
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How do I change file permissions on a FAT32 drive? [duplicate]

I have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx). I've noticed recently every file on my hard drive gets the executable privilege, even every text files, so when I open it a pop-up window asks me what to do (run ...
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How do I change permissions on a FAT32 formatted drive?

I am using Microsoft Visual C++ on Windows and Qt Creator on Ubuntu. I can't change permissions on my flash drive (FAT32), even as root. How can I change permissions on a FAT32 flash-drive?
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Mount FAT32: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem

Xubuntu 14.04. nfts-3g is installed. /dev/sdc is the Flash drive. I have created new partition with fdisk (tried with cfdisk too). Tried with W95 FAT32 code and W95 FAT32 (LBA) code. ("b" and "c" in ...
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Is FAT 32-bit version ok for Linux?

I understand this may be a dumb question but I just realized my main SSD is a FAT 32-bit version - I installed Ubuntu a while ago. Is this partition format ok or would another one work better with ...
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"FAT-fs: IO charset iso8859-1 not found" error while mounting FAT Drives

I am unable to mount any fat32 or fat16 formatted usb disks under Ubuntu 13.10. The thing here to note is that it is happening only with fat formatted Disks. ntfs, ext formatted external usb disks ...
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How to make a live USB - WITHOUT FAT

I'm trying to make a live USB boot drive for Ubuntu 18.04. I don't want to use Windows, as I don't like (or trust) Windows. Here's the catch: I've found FAT32 to be completely unreliable. Seriously, ...
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Attribute "partition" not found - error when formatting USB flash drive

I have a USB flash drive that's become unrecognisable in Windows 7, as detailed in my question on SuperUser here. I was advised to use Ubuntu, and was able to see the flash drive using it, although ...
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How do I change the disk size with mkdosfs [closed]

So I recently have received a 256GB SD Card on eBay for pretty cheap, but turns out that the factory part number printed on the back plastic was listed as an 8GB card. It was modified from the seller ...
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Windows won't recognize formatted partition on Ubuntu (FAT32 and NTFS)

I'm using a USB drive of 128GB on which I installed Ubuntu 16, I'm using this drive to run Ubuntu alongside Windows. This works fine, except for one thing; I can't see the FAT32 partition in Windows ...
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Windows can't see FAT32 drive modified by GParted

My SD card had a FAT32 partition and an EXT partition for Android. I don't need the EXT partition anymore, so I used GParted to delete it and increase the FAT32 to use the extra space, but Windows 7 ...
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Too many FATs on USB Drive?

A while ago, I wrote an image on a USB drive using something along these lines: dd bs=4M if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/sdb && sync Something must have gone terribly wrong there because ...
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rsync not working between NTFS/FAT and EXT

I have music that I play in my car, from an FAT32 USB stick. The folder which I use to put songs on is stored on my EXT4 hard drive. I add/remove/retag songs regularly and occasionally want to rsync ...
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GParted is not working on Ubuntu 17.10 [duplicate]

I installed GParted to change format of my PD to FAT32. After installation I clicked on its icon and its asking for Authecatation. But, after that GParted is not running.
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How to repair a corrupted FAT32 file system

I'm using the FAT32 file system for my pen drive. It frequently has file/data corruptions. In Windows, I used the scan disk utility to fix the FAT32/NTFS file systems. How can I do this in Ubuntu?
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How to set read/write permission for a flash drive? [duplicate]

I have a 16 GB flash drive formatted as FAT. When I plug the flash drive into my Dell Laptop running Ubuntu 14.04, I can read and write with no problem, but when I plug the same flash drive into my ...
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Unable to access on SD Card [duplicate]

suddenly I get an error on my SD Card (look at the image) and now I can't see what it is inside it or use it. I never done any works or something strange since I've bought it months ago. I think it's ...
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trying to format a 64GB MicroSDXC card with 4096 bytes per sector

I'm trying to flash Rockbox onto an xDuoo digital music player, and the micro SD card has to be formatted FAT32 with 4096 bytes per sector. I've come across conflicting reports for mkdosfs parameters, ...
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Cannot control how often fsck is running on /boot/efi

Every boot fsck is checking the partition /efi/boot. I can control how often it runs on other partitions using tune2fs but it won't work with this partition. /var/log/syslog reports Nov 28 19:59:55 ...
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Problem with mounting usb device FAT filesystem on Linux

I copied an image on a usb stick with win32DiskManage. I want to copy this image on my beagleboneblack wich's system is Linux. The filesystem of the usb stick is FAT. Now I want to mount a usb device ...
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USB doesn't mount

I have a problem. I have had Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop for 2 years and up until now no problems with the USB. But since this evening the pc doesn't mount the USB. I read some discussions but the ...
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Is a FAT32 partition able to use non-ASCII characters for names of files and directories the same way as Windows 10?

I have installed the Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 7 systems at the same PC. I prepare to change all names of files and directories to ASCII so that I can use correctly a united probably FAT32 partition. I ...
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Converting img file to FAT32

I'm trying to make convert an img file to FAT32. Here is the code I execute: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=./testImage bs=10000000 count=1 Then the output I get is: 1+0 records in 1+0 records out ...
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How do I properly mount fat32 flash drive for Multisystem use?

I'm attempting to switch to MultiSystem from YUMI so I can add ISOs to a multi-bootable flash drive with Ubuntu instead of Windows, and boy, am I starting to regret it. First, I backed up my flash ...
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Cannot install Ubuntu at ext4 partition from FAT32 bootable USB stick [closed]

I am trying to install a 14.04.5 64 bits Ubuntu in a machine with several partitions, one of which is already running a 12.04 64 bits Ubuntu, into one that is empty and formatted as ext4. I have ...
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Is it enough to copy grub.cfg

I have installed Windows 10 in the first half of my HDD. Then I install Ubuntu in the second half (minus 1GB). After all I formatted third 1GB partition in FAT32 then I install grub into it using grub-...
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Convert FAT32 partition to NTFS without data loss

Is there a way to change the partition format from FAT32 to NTFS without losing data in it? For now I am aware of one method: split partition in two, set the new partition format to NTFS, copy data ...
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Ubuntu does not detect USB stick with lsblk or fdisk

I have a usb stick that needed formatting because ubuntu couldn't detect it or mount it. I found a few solutions online and used lsblk and fdisk commands to list out all devices that are attached. I ...
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How to obtain the correct vfat path translation for my floppies?

My father left me a batch of 3.5 inch "floppy" disks created with Windows 95 (Dutch). I want to copy their contents. My only computer with a floppy drive runs Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS. After installing ...
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Problem with FAT32 filesystem, need to install dosfstools and mtools [closed]

In my HDD I was trying to convert a filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS with gparted, but I cannot see my HDD. Gparted shows me HDD (/dev/sda2) but it shows this message: I am trying to install mtools ...
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Corrupted folders content on USB flash drive

I'm using XUBUNTU (Linux apollon 4.4.0-62-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 18 14:10:15 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux). I insert an USB flashdrive. It mounts correctly. $lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN ...
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Force mount Fat16 partiton?

I have a Windows XP HDD that no longer wants to mount itself. Long story short, I tried to acces my data through a Ubuntu Live USB. The hard drive wouldn't auto mount, thus I created a mount point ...
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FAT32 external drive : no space left error

Using Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, I have mounted a 1 TB usb drive formatted with FAT32. The drive was mounted with this command (no error) : sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/jpgs/ I create a single ...
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How can I substitute colons when I rsync on a USB key?

I would like to backup my mail directory on a USB key. However, my IMAP has a strange naming convention that something include a colon (:) character. Since the USB is in a window format, rsync fail ...
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Ubuntu on a USB stick - mount options to reduce writes

I'd like to have Ubuntu installed on a USB stick, that I could plug in (almost) any computer and boot from it, and that I could use (almost) normally, as if it was installed on that computer. I'd also ...
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How can I format a USB/SD card that I'm not able to format with the dd command?

I have this 32Gb micro SD card that was on my android phone. It was working as an external HD. Now I want to format the SD card to use with another phone, but it seems impossible to format. I've ...
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I used GParted in Ubuntu to reformat my partitions, now windows won't boot!

Let me start by saying I did clone my SSD to my old HDD so if I really did mess up, I haven't lost anything. Anyway, so I bought a new SSD a while ago and copied my old HDD over to my new SSD using ...
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When accessing a FAT32 partition in Ubuntu, does it get flagged for Windows to run chkdsk?

I have a Windows 10 computer. I booted it up using an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Live CD. The hard drive has 3 partitions which were automatically mounted in Ubuntu - C and D drives which are NTFS partitions, ...
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Formatting External USB Hard drive problem

I'm new the the linux community. I recently upgraded my old laptop with a ssd and installed Ubuntu 16.10. I plan on using the old hard drive as a external hard drive for videos and music. I was ...