From: Elias Probst <mail@eliasprobst.eu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:51:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705171351.57168.mail@eliasprobst.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705171236.28695.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36:25 Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought it to
> work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help with my
> Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it seems that
> Linux is also struggling to get to it:
> .................
>
> I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard drive,
> but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that I can do with my
> Gentoo to recover the files on this USB?
Try the PhotoRec tool from app-admin/testdisk
It recovers a lot of different file formats.
Regards, Elias P.
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A really nice number:
"09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0"
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-17 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-17 11:36 [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive Mick
2007-05-17 11:51 ` Elias Probst [this message]
2007-05-17 12:56 ` Mick
2007-05-17 14:45 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-17 15:38 ` Mick
2007-05-17 15:49 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-17 16:03 ` Tim Allingham
2007-05-17 16:04 ` Mick
2007-05-17 16:25 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-17 16:26 ` Tim Allingham
2007-05-17 22:27 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-05-18 8:29 ` Mick
2007-05-18 9:24 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-05-18 11:50 ` Mick
2007-05-18 12:25 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-05-18 13:11 ` Mick
2007-05-18 14:09 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-18 14:48 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-05-18 15:30 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-05-18 15:16 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-05-21 9:47 ` Mick
2007-05-21 12:30 ` [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive [ot] Dan Farrell
2007-05-17 16:35 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Corrupt USB pen drive Francesco Talamona
2007-05-17 21:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Etaoin Shrdlu
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