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Hi All, |
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A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought it to |
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work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help with my |
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Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it seems that |
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Linux is also struggling to get to it: |
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usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 |
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usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice |
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scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices |
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usb-storage: device found at 2 |
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usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning |
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scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB BAR 1.89 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 |
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SCSI device sda: 255744 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) |
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sda: Write Protect is off |
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sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 |
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sda: assuming drive cache: write through |
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SCSI device sda: 255744 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) |
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sda: Write Protect is off |
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sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 |
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sda: assuming drive cache: write through |
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sda: unknown partition table |
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sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda |
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sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 |
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usb-storage: device scan complete |
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UDF-fs: No VRS found |
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Unable to identify CD-ROM format. |
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FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535 |
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VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda. |
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NTFS-fs warning (device sda): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot sector |
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checksum. |
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NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is |
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invalid. |
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NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option |
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errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover. |
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NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume. |
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hfs: can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda. |
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VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda. |
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VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda. |
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ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on |
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sda |
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I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard drive, but |
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it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that I can do with my Gentoo to |
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recover the files on this USB? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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