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Berton in his post #15 has dished out a treatise "Overview öf FAT,HPFS and NTFS File Systems"
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/tro...s-file-systems. I do not know in what way it is relevant to your problem. Here is my take on it.
In a FAT32 file system there is indeed a Volume Boot Record at the start sector of the partition. There is also a backup of it in Start sector +6th sector as illustrated below.
The Volume Boot Record (VBR) at start sector 2048 in my 1GB Imation FAT32 flash drive:
An exact backup of this resides in 2048+6= 2054th sector. ( In a FAT32 drive the backup VBR will always be in the (start sector +6)th sector.
A TestDisk run will always find these two if ordered.
On an NTFS drive ( MBR as well as GPT) the VBR will be at the start sector of the partition. Its replica will be at the end sector of the partition.
VBR at the start sector of my 500GB Seagate Trial drive.
Its exact back up at the partition end sector 976766975
TestDisk can find the exact status of these VBR and backup VBR and can repair/rebuild VBR. Men may make mistakes. TestDisk never.( Note the start sector and end sector indicated in the MS Data partition. The sector map of these sectors are shown above)
Short answer: If there is one such thing, I don't know .
Last edited by jumanji; 02 Aug 2021 at 04:54.