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[Q] Oh noes, my USB flash drive died! How to recover?

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Misalf:
fdisk and gparted were not able to see anything on that drive (unallocated space).

I was able to recreate my FAT32 (second) partition using TestDisk so this one is now listed in fdisk as sdb1 (originally sdb3).

My linux machine is another PC where I do not have configured a dialup network so I can't copy/paste right now but I could do so later. Any useful info I could post from fdisk output apart from partitioning layout?

Rich:
Hi Misalf

--- Quote ---fdisk and gparted were not able to see anything on that drive (unallocated space).
--- End quote ---
Then it sounds like the partition table is messed up. You might want to ask Google for information on how to attempt
to fix it, though I don't think it will be easy.

coreplayer2:
Test disk is the  only of tool I know which can rewrite the partition structure whilst leaving the contents intact.

It has saved my bacon many a time.



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Rich:
Hi Misalf
This tutorial may be of some help:
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-data-recovery.html

coreplayer2:
Rich, that's a good tutorial and honest too.  I mean, test disk is a great tool but it is only magic when given something it can handle.  Sometimes we are doomed before we attempt any recovery.
They have good info at the developers web site also.


definitely agree not wise to be changing geometry values.


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