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advice request - flashdrive resurrection

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Lee:
There's a nice current article about testdisk here:

http://maketecheasier.com/recover-data-and-partitions-for-free-with-testdisk/2011/05/19/

It didn't turn out to help me  much - looks like the filesystems's pretty well shot.

Hmmm - I thought I had mentioned the latest here yesterday but I must have never posted it.
Testdisk detected the correct size of the device and I was able to rebuild the MBR but the filesystem was not recoverable so far.  I haven't given up on it, still have the backup image file around.

tinypoodle:
Once you have restored your partition table, did you run 'dosfsck'?

Lee:
dosfsck - yes, thanks.  It turns out that while that didn't fix the whole mess it did happen to recover the files that weren't backed up elsewhere.  Yay :)

Having retrieved the data I then put the stick back into service by:

1) whacked the MBR (on purpose this time) using dd
2) fdisk  the stick to a single FAT32 partition
3) mkdosfs the partition to a usable filesystem
4) install TC / MC 3.6 and 3.7rc1
5) set the whole mess up with grub4dos (native) instead of grub-0.97-splash.  I like g4d but that bit where it searches for the boot files can make it tricky if you're booting from a usb stick and the internal HD has an older version of TC on it.  I worked around that by having it search for a marker file that is unique to the stick instead.

Works like a charm.  I'm thinking about one- or two-pass full disk test to verify the media just to rule out any hardwaare related failure on the stick.  I suppose SpinRite would pretty much shoot the lifetime of the flash memory.   ;D

tinypoodle:
You can use

--- Code: ---dosfsck -vtr
--- End code ---

Of course that would exclude the MBR, you might want to look into 'badblocks' and search how to use it on specifically chosen sectors.

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