Re: Flash drive recovery

["jherm" <user=1536@nabble.blu.org>]

 Kristian, we all know what happened with your last data recovery 
experiment... :p 

Samuel, if there ever is a chance that you are able to power on your memory 
stick, or "transplant" it somehow, before mounting (which may write, and in 
turn, do irreparable damage to the filesystem on it) try using TestDisk, 
PhotoRec, or some other "read-only" filesystem recovery tool. 

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

The link is to the site for TestDisk, but I used PhotoRec (its on the same 
site) to recover pictures from my girlfriend's CompactFlash card. We tried 
to access her data using the camera as a reader but only allowed PTP access 
(read: not block-level access). Anyways... to make a long story short, 
PhotoRec made it easy for me. I went to Radio Shack, bought a 6 dollar 
multi-card reader, plugged it into her PPC OS X Tiger machine, ran PhotoRec, 
and in just a few minutes was able to recover all the pictures she had 
accidentally formatted away. 

Food for thought... 

On 9/27/07, Kristian Erik Hermansen <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> On 9/26/07, Samuel Baldwin <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > My 1GB Memorex just completed it's first wash cycle. I just got it out 
> > and it won't mount (no lights flashing either). I'm gonna let it dry 
> > out overnight, but I'm not feeling optimistic. Do I have a chance of 
> > recovering the drive, or am I completely screwed? 
> 
> If all else fails, pop out the memory chip with a puller and insert it 
> into an identical (working) flash drive... 
> -- 
> Kristian Erik Hermansen 
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