* Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive
@ 2007-05-17 16:26 99% ` Tim Allingham
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From: Tim Allingham @ 2007-05-17 16:26 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 17:04 +0100, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:38, Mick wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 May 2007 15:45, Dan Farrell wrote:
> > > On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:25 +0100
> > >
> > > Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 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?
> > >
> > > have you tried reading raw from the device like
> > >
> > > | dd if=/dev/sda of=sda.image
> > >
> > > ? That might do the recovery. How to get it out of the image is the
> > > same problem but once the backup succeeds you can plug it into a
> > > windows xp box and reformat, and you will probably end up with the same
> > > partition structure as originally. Then you can try to read the right
> > > part of the image out of the image, once you get the numbers from fdisk
> > > on the newly formatted drive, and end up with an image of sda1. From
> > > there you should be able to mount sda1 and read out the data, if it
> > > isn't corrupted.
> >
> > Thanks Dan, as I said above I tried to extract the MBR out of it by
> > running:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512
> >
> > But couldn't access it whatsoever.
> >
>
> Oops! I could access it, but of course I had to try it as root! Right, I've
> got it on my hard drive now, but still cannot mount it:
> ==================================
> # mount -t vfat /dev/loop2 /tmp/r1
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop2,
> missing codepage or other error
> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> dmesg | tail or so
> ==================================
Have you tried mounting with just
mount -o loop /dev/loop2 /tmp/r1
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