Can I use Ubuntu on my Mac to recover a FAT32 drive?

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

1 Answer

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.