[SLE] Data Recovery [Was: Re: [SLE] Re: USB Pen Drive - Enabling unmounting and other issues]

From: Christopher Shanahan (cshanahan_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/19/05

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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:08:49 -0400

    On Friday 19 August 2005 13:39, Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd Mobile w/ Treo wrote:
    > I already porked a 512M SD Card in a SD read/writer in SuSE 9.2 and 9.3 and
    > do not wish to repeat the expierence. BTW, it was porked by a Treo 650 and
    > it can not be used properly.
    >
    > I wished someone who write a proper recover utility that does not blindly
    > read the MS FAT descriptor block that is still telling me the SD card is
    > now 256M of clusters of 1 byte size and no way of fixing it via software.

    What software are you referring to? I'm curious.

    > And yes, I have tried all the linux software out there with no success.

    What have you tried?

    As an alternative to trying to read the FAT, you could search the media by
    file header, such as with foremost -- in conjunction with The Sleuthkit and
    Autopsy. If the data is valuable, then consider investing in SMART.
    (http://w w w.asrdata.com/SMART)

    HTH 

    --
Christopher Shanahan

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