USB HDD ExFat partition became read only

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AlexP112232012-03-17 20:03:52

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AlexP11223, 2012-03-17 20:03:52

Again something happened to the USB HDD (Toshiba 320GB). It seems that during the recording on it, the ExFat section became read-only, i.e. files were not deleted from it and were not written, Windows offered error scanning, but it hung at 0%, while the first FAT32 partition worked fine.

upd: I transferred it to the computer (137GB and the suggestion to format it was after mounting it into a virtual machine with ubuntu), now it has returned to its initial state: read only.

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AlexP11223, 2012-03-19
@AlexP11223

Fixed by removing the flag that makes the ExFat partition read only (replaced 02 at offset 6a with 00), forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=11:43421-63#1880 . While it seems to be working.

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Andriy Kondratiev, 2012-03-18
@keedhost

And on another computer, too, this behavior?

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adramelech, 2012-03-18
@adramelech

most likely your file table
has crashed Try to scan it with some ontrack

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Stanislav, 2012-03-18
@crackedmind

Try www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk it helped a lot to recover lost FAT

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@ngreduce, 2012-03-19
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Anyway, in this situation it is better to copy the data somewhere, format it and upload it back. The soul will be calmer.