From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HoeR7-0000Kz-9s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 11:46:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4HBiZN1019251; Thu, 17 May 2007 11:44:35 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4HBaqRA009651 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 11:36:53 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so271230ugc for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 04:36:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=YJO9kTQAcfJw4eZIKBdh+ATZn1FY9/kpG8HEar2CsckgwZB4HT3mAeyOEfoZrjdml13kBWcpB1ZTLO4WO1/BPTklLXFvtpEWguvZQ7OYn3MUQVSDdfJUHpwjmTj4Dcv5y1SSNiB6LlmYgVLZuWb+SgMqE5jSJYb31vYsyOz1DRY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=TWYKYO983QMnrx8G+o+WIpjqq0fsJciESB+GrVPlL7Q8bPHNvELyHBGdIeSAfwIuz5P3s+3JuYprH4u5UjXGQ8nvCS/I90p6ekRdQKGvW5qMUqo66avgqOz7sS2K90vbVzietejaYlwDY87G8wbdGbd0E2mXglPpSXsba0/LUs0= Received: by 10.67.116.2 with SMTP id t2mr118591ugm.1179401811847; Thu, 17 May 2007 04:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy ( [86.133.184.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id p32sm221225ugc.2007.05.17.04.36.50; Thu, 17 May 2007 04:36:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2612947.xXTnEfmaOD"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705171236.28695.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a4ec5b11-105d-438a-96c0-8fcabda9134a X-Archives-Hash: 0b0684a4a8b7ce331b2f3ce732cfae92 --nextPart2612947.xXTnEfmaOD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi All, A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought it to= =20 work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help with my=20 Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it seems that=20 Linux is also struggling to get to it: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB BAR 1.89 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 SCSI device sda: 255744 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 255744 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: unknown partition table sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete UDF-fs: No VRS found Unable to identify CD-ROM format. =46AT: bogus logical sector size 65535 VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda. NTFS-fs warning (device sda): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot sector=20 checksum. NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is= =20 invalid. NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option=20 errors=3Drecover not used. Aborting without trying to recover. NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume. hfs: can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda. VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda. VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda. ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs= on=20 sda =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard drive, bu= t=20 it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that I can do with my Gentoo = to=20 recover the files on this USB? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2612947.xXTnEfmaOD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGTD475Fp0QerLYPcRAkhWAKCpD6Ksr9ARl8eGkSB39FzuyKIcgwCgmxUW JXwjFpLhzZK8lKSe0CIvdpQ= =RNhq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2612947.xXTnEfmaOD-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list