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How I wrote a utility to sort files in FAT-32 storage devices and fixing products that are affected by improper sorting order, such as various music players.
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Recover data from corrupted drives, FAT32, NTFS.
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by Udi Cohen
How I wrote a utility to sort files in FAT-32 storage devices and fixing products that are affected by improper sorting order, such as various music players.
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Recover data from corrupted drives, FAT32, NTFS.
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Update to "FAT-32 Sorter" helping to ignore leading 'the ' when sorting

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18 Oct 2013 by OriginalGriff
I wouldn't recommend trying: FAT32 is not the only disk format in use (there is NTFS and FAT16 as well, or my system will occasionally host EXT2 and EXT3 partitions from a Linux box).Any user (or even Admin) code attempting to modify FAT space is going to be taken immediately as virus...
13 Apr 2015 by OriginalGriff
Not really - it's a complicated process, and the only time I've ever done it was in the floppy disk days - and it took about an hour per megabyte to restore after the FAT died. The problem is worse with flash drives, because they don't overwrite used blocks - instead they write to a new block...
13 Apr 2015 by Frankie-C
Another solution a little bit complicate, but functional, is to create a virtual machine with MS-DOS or FREEDOS, attach your disk as an emulated local hard disk.Then you can use any restore/repair tool for DOS :-)
29 Apr 2015 by AlicePhoebe
First of all you will need to parse the file system (i assume it's fat32 from the tags). In fact you will need to parse File Allocation Table (if it's corrupted and mirror copy of FAT was enabled on your drive, then you can try with it).
12 Feb 2023 by Udi Cohen
How I wrote a utility to sort files in FAT-32 storage devices and fixing products that are affected by improper sorting order, such as various music players.
13 Dec 2013 by SOFT_RAJAT
Recover data from corrupted drives, FAT32, NTFS.
29 May 2012 by User 3160068
Update to "FAT-32 Sorter" helping to ignore leading 'the ' when sorting
13 Apr 2015 by Member 11578225
I am able to read raw data of the corrupted file system of USB drive. Is there any simple way for me to recover only text and docx files by using these Hexadecimal value? (Programming Language: C++)