Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Friday 18 May 2007 16:16, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Friday 18 May 2007 15:11, Mick wrote:
> > On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> > > Did you try the recovery tools for the FS in question?
> >
> > I tried fsck.msdos but didn't fix it.
[snip... lot's of good advice]

> Bottom line: I would not bet on data recovery from that stick.
> It's also true that there might be some program I'm unaware of which
> could try or be able to recover things, but unfortunately I have no
> advice for you about this.

Guys, thank you sooo much!  I used fdisk to create a single partition FAT16 
fs.  Then I used testdisk which would not recover any partitions, but it 
could at least see the partition (despite the fact that I could not 
mount /dev/sda1 from the command line due to the previously reported errors).  
Then I used photorec which worked out its magic and recovered a load of files 
(some were corrupted) - wey hey!  :)

My friend is happy and so am I proving to him that Linux can save your skin - 
I'm no Linux evangelist, as I believe that there are "horses for courses", 
but I suspect we may have a convert.  Let's see if he starts asking for a 
Gentoo install CD next.  Ha!

Thanks again for your help.
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Regards,
Mick

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