>> Yeah. Well it's not complaining the filesystem is broken, it claims 
>> that there *is* not filesystem at all. That's what I find so puzzling...
> 
> Right. The superblock (i.e., the boot block) holds a table that says 
> where the file system is, how many blocks are in it, which block the 
> root directory starts on, and so on. If that got wiped, then no, you 
> don't have any file system. :)

I can see how that would be. What I don't see is why the hell you would 
ever be writing data to anywhere near this location...

That again, I have no idea how FAT works.

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