On 06/15/2017 10:48 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 06/15/2017 06:21:44 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > [snip] >> > > This looks like a hardware failure. You could try to use sys-fs/ddrescue > to recover all / most files. > If this doesn't work as expected, you can try to use app-admin/testdisk. > > Then you can format the drive and copy the files back. > > P.S. Have you used the "save eject feature" of Windows before > disconnection the drive from your PC? > > (Cheap) USB sticks are by no means a safe data storage. > > If you don't change any data while the drive is attached to Windows try > using a stick with a write protection toggle. > If you have to write to the drive from Windows it would be better to > format it as NTFS which can be read/written on Linux. > > Helmut
I don't really need any of the files that were on this USB stick. I was trying to recover the ext4 file system on this USB but it didn't work. I was under impression that ext4 file system was much better (not prone to these kind of damages) but I was wrong. -- Thelma
