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fsck error: currently, only 1 or 2 FATs are supported, not 34

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Why do I get the fsck error: "currently, only 1 or 2 FATs are supported, not 34?" And what can I do to successfully run fsck? I'm fsck-ing my Transcend 16GB Class-6 SD card. It got corrupted recently (not sure how). I already recovered the data. Now I'm trying to fix the card for re-use. I want to …

Error Output

billpaetzke@billpaetzke-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylin…

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Fix for: fsck error: currently, only 1 or 2 FATs are supported, not 34

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When you do a dosfsck you need to tell it what partition number - fsck's launching of dosfsck isn't quite cutting it in this case (maybe). Try running directly: the -r option is for interactively fixing the file system the -v option is for verbosity…

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