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I installed a game on my PS3 which is formatted for FAT32 and it corrupted the drive. (The same game did the same thing on another PS3. Rats.) I need to recover the drive but am a Mac user. Can I install Ubuntu on my (older) (Intel 2.8 Ghz dual from 2007) Mac and use a disk utility in Ubuntu to attempt to recover the drive? Does Ubuntu work with FAT32 drives? I don't have access to a Windows machine, so that's out.

Thanks for the info.

Binky

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Install the package dosfstools

sudo apt-get install dosfstools

and run the command (change to suite your partition number and device letter)

sudo dosfsck -r /dev/sdb1

repeatedly until there are no more errors.

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  • Thanks, ubfan1; this is zactly what I needed! I feel hopeful that this is gonna bring my drive back, assuming it's not totally hosed! I appreciate your help a lot!
    – Binky Melnilk
    Jan 18, 2015 at 15:44
  • Well, nuts; I'm too new to upvote you yet. Moreover, I don't know anything about Ubuntu yet, so it'd be a strain to post enough to earn myself enough rep to be able to upvote you. Argh. Please let's pretend I upvoted you. (banging head on desk)
    – Binky Melnilk
    Jan 19, 2015 at 13:02
  • Don't worry about the upvote, but you should be able to mark the answer as accepted.
    – ubfan1
    Jan 19, 2015 at 18:16
  • I'm not seeing an "accepted" button anywhere. Would love to be able to close the question. I'm running Safari on an iPad. If a friendly admin is able to do it for me, I'd be grateful. I swear I've scrolled all over the page, and don't see it anywhere.
    – Binky Melnilk
    Jan 20, 2015 at 1:25
  • I clicked a star, and it turned into a check mark. Perhaps that did the trick?
    – Binky Melnilk
    Jan 20, 2015 at 1:27

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