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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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  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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