Thread: Missing folder on external HD with fat32

hello forum,

sorted music files on external hd , 1 folder missing. tried fsck, dosfsck , testdisk, though i'm not sure if used proper flags. drive formatted vfat32. whe try access folder via shell, get:

code:

ls: cannot access musicfolder: input/output error

dosfsck says:

code:

musicfolder contains free cluster (...). assuming eof.

dmesg says:

code:

[  400.625214] fat: filesystem error (dev sdb)  [  400.625215]     fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0)  [  430.230279] fat: filesystem error (dev sdb)  [  430.230281]     fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0)  [13381.919885] fat: filesystem error (dev sdb)  [13381.919887]     fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0)  [13381.932275] fat: filesystem error (dev sdb)  [13381.932277]     fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0)  [15157.991529] fat: filesystem error (dev sdb)  [15157.991532]     fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0)

the rest of filesystem intact, 1 folder lots of files in it...

can me please?

please no advice format whole hd, not option...

kind regards,
dave

i recovered data using photorec , ordered new hd.

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