On Thursday 17 May 2007 13:36:25 Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought it to > work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help with my > Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it seems that > Linux is also struggling to get to it: > ................. > > I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard drive, > but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that I can do with my > Gentoo to recover the files on this USB?
Try the PhotoRec tool from app-admin/testdisk It recovers a lot of different file formats. Regards, Elias P. -- A really nice number: "09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0"
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