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On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36:25 Mick wrote: |
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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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> ................. |
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> I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard drive, |
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> but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that I can do with my |
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> Gentoo to recover the files on this USB? |
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Try the PhotoRec tool from app-admin/testdisk |
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It recovers a lot of different file formats. |
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Regards, Elias P. |
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A really nice number: |
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"09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0" |
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