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 1Hoebb-00015A-DO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 May 2007 11:57:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4HBtwOs027858; Thu, 17 May 2007 11:55:58 GMT Received: from jabbathehutt.spamsuxx.de (jabbathehutt.spamsuxx.de [85.214.64.12]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4HBpUA2022735 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 11:51:31 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jabbathehutt.spamsuxx.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69F6C4ED801 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 13:51:24 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at spamsuxx.de Received: from jabbathehutt.spamsuxx.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (jabbathehutt.spamsuxx.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5Me3L2ALbtRd for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 13:51:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jabbathehutt.spamsuxx.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F9A4ED82A for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 13:51:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from nx9420.middleearth.local (HSI-KBW-085-216-048-236.hsi.kabelbw.de [85.216.48.236]) (Authenticated sender: mail@eliasprobst.eu) by jabbathehutt.spamsuxx.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7064ED801 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 13:51:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Elias Probst To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:51:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200705171236.28695.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200705171236.28695.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> 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="nextPart1274499.rSCiFcIPNq"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705171351.57168.mail@eliasprobst.eu> X-Archives-Salt: 29ffeab5-d713-4a13-8156-1fe610f58a0f X-Archives-Hash: 2f09b990e4d7632b7a26cf31d3461939 --nextPart1274499.rSCiFcIPNq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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. =2D-=20 A really nice number: "09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0" --nextPart1274499.rSCiFcIPNq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGTEHaHzenisJbkx8RAjy4AKDx/TwjX2ozKEJZE7OMm37q4j2teQCfWe5J to423kUjVB1LQJVjUIqvQ4Y= =Sj7H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1274499.rSCiFcIPNq-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list