* Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive
@ 2007-05-17 11:51 99% ` Elias Probst
0 siblings, 0 replies; 1+ results
From: Elias Probst @ 2007-05-17 11:51 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 747 bytes --]
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.
--
A really nice number:
"09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0"
[-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part. --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --]
^ permalink raw reply [relevance 99%]
Results 1-1 of 1 | reverse | options above
-- pct% links below jump to the message on this page, permalinks otherwise --
2007-05-17 11:36 [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive Mick
2007-05-17 11:51 99% ` Elias Probst
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox