* Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive
@ 2007-05-17 15:38 99% ` Mick
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From: Mick @ 2007-05-17 15:38 UTC (permalink / raw
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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.
> I also am wondering what happened to the partition table. I bet your
> coworker has a security-compromised box at home (oh, runs windows?
> right...) At any rate, if the data is recoverable, it may be possible
> to rebuild the partition table if you can find out where the partition
> started and ended. People have done it before, i've read online about
> it.
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Regards,
Mick
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