Re: Salvaging data from USB flash disk

"OtisUsenet" <otis_usenet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1151423631.437776.72030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:


Hi Henrik,

Thanks for all the help and pointers, Henrik. Unfortunately, I am
still unable to mount the copy of the disk. :(

I'm not sure what file system type was on the disk. My mount thinks
it's not vfat, and it looks like I don't have fat* support, so I can't
use -t fat32, for example.
(I'm looking at another, working flash disk now, and it uses vfat, so
I assume the corrupt one also used vfat)

Is the only way I can get to this data through mounting the disk
first?

Could I recover anything with Partition Magic or some such tool? (I'm
wondering if P.M. might still be able to see the flash disk and let me
copy its data onto a new valid partition on, say, a regular HDD)

Thanks.



Sorry to *** in, but you might try using cfdisk on the drive - just the
drive leave out the partition number. eg. type cfdisk /dev/sda and that
will tell you what type of partition it is without even being able to
read it. You might try running fsck.<partition type> on that "dead" disk
after your sure of the type of partition.

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