WinHex can not read file system

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Author Message   Roland (Roland) Posted on Thursday, Apr 22, 2004 - 9:33:    I have got a hard disk with "RTFiles-16" file system on it (from "On Time Software"). It has the following parameters: First Physical Sector = 1237068. FAT Type = 16. Number of FATs = 2. Max. Dir entries = 512. Bytes per sector = 512. Sectors per cluster = 16384. Bytes per cluster = 8388608. Total clusters = 19465. Nr of bad clusters = 0. Nr of dirs and files = 13. Nr of contiguous cluster chains = 68. Nr of contiguous free cluster chains = 2. Largest contiguous free cluster chain = 18361. The hard disk is not readable in WindowsXP. If I access the hard disk with WinHex, it determines the following wrong parameters: Size : 152 GB FAT type : FAT12 (error!) Bytes per cluster : 512 (error!) Total clusters : 2.245.930 Bytes per sector : 512 First data sector : 187 Part. start sector: 1237068 Is there a way to access this hard disk with WinHex? It would be very useful in WinHex if I could edit these parameters (e.g. FAT type, bytes per cluster...). Thank you for your help.   Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) Posted on Friday, Apr 23, 2004 - 18:03:    > Sectors per cluster = 16384. In FAT file system boot sectors the limit for "sectors per cluster" is 2^8 - 1 = 255 because only 8 bits are reserved for this number. So WinHex is not compatible with "FAT-like" file systems that use more than 255 sectors per cluster, just to mention one aspect. If you like, feel free to send me a sample boot sector exported as a binary file and file system specifications so I could have a look.