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 1Hq4cT-00072m-2R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 09:56:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4L9s3lP021552; Mon, 21 May 2007 09:54:03 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4L9lk1r013248 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 09:47:47 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so939722ugc for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 02:47:45 -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:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Ibxeo7Fs23WREhumdEEzUNaRJwOL4UuvqJNo6Bnkrwq52FAzWW1Jg7cI92MEnQ5a9Llhos6BDYSOTKhaGNDIasm7npUBF/+xQxenkPFO6z7ksoOQakiJAiYrWHcCcelP7JcYC6Jp5GImUUO1TwV/aAdGqkaphidymJr/acfZ08s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=tH/C8SCkmruuDqVtjRwrg672g4X7YkWM1RMvES3WqCYb64S1oWEFUaBZOkzY7zeneqnnHE/aeh2qz9hbpDqneF+/4mKqYWLa6lQrj5tAWKREq93eJu1zmj8FXny1M6kafMOb7vFuUcjRKfOGpmbB+deE1niDSWbZuX61qQpe6LM= Received: by 10.78.201.2 with SMTP id y2mr1050753huf.1179740865586; Mon, 21 May 2007 02:47:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lappy ( [86.133.184.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id k28sm7368586ugd.2007.05.21.02.47.44; Mon, 21 May 2007 02:47:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:47:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200705171236.28695.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200705181411.23476.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200705181716.42536.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> In-Reply-To: <200705181716.42536.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> 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="nextPart49165198.0qSCZmD31F"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200705211047.26446.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d85c026d-0a06-4bad-97b8-bff7b931143e X-Archives-Hash: 0cf38ffc2c75f5c62ea700f722472531 --nextPart49165198.0qSCZmD31F Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 fs. Then I used testdisk which would not recover any partitions, but it=20 could at least see the partition (despite the fact that I could not=20 mount /dev/sda1 from the command line due to the previously reported errors= ). =20 Then I used photorec which worked out its magic and recovered a load of fil= es=20 (some were corrupted) - wey hey! :) My friend is happy and so am I proving to him that Linux can save your skin= -=20 I'm no Linux evangelist, as I believe that there are "horses for courses",= =20 but I suspect we may have a convert. Let's see if he starts asking for a=20 Gentoo install CD next. Ha! Thanks again for your help. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart49165198.0qSCZmD31F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGUWqZ5Fp0QerLYPcRAolRAJ4uR3miEV07yJXwP9j4sZ91VN4MDgCgoS4g 760ftgnhxYu9e+zOH2C0iSU= =sDP8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart49165198.0qSCZmD31F-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list