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* Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive
  @ 2007-05-17 11:51 99% ` Elias Probst
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From: Elias Probst @ 2007-05-17 11:51 UTC (permalink / raw
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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:
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