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On Friday 18 May 2007 16:16, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> On Friday 18 May 2007 15:11, Mick wrote: |
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> > On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: |
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> > > Did you try the recovery tools for the FS in question? |
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> > I tried fsck.msdos but didn't fix it. |
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[snip... lot's of good advice] |
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> Bottom line: I would not bet on data recovery from that stick. |
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> It's also true that there might be some program I'm unaware of which |
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> could try or be able to recover things, but unfortunately I have no |
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> advice for you about this. |
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Guys, thank you sooo much! I used fdisk to create a single partition FAT16 |
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fs. Then I used testdisk which would not recover any partitions, but it |
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could at least see the partition (despite the fact that I could not |
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mount /dev/sda1 from the command line due to the previously reported errors). |
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Then I used photorec which worked out its magic and recovered a load of files |
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(some were corrupted) - wey hey! :) |
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My friend is happy and so am I proving to him that Linux can save your skin - |
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I'm no Linux evangelist, as I believe that there are "horses for courses", |
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but I suspect we may have a convert. Let's see if he starts asking for a |
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Gentoo install CD next. Ha! |
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Thanks again for your help. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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