On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Satish Eerpini <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I run Ubuntu 9.10 i386 arch. And no, I tried plugging it in a Windows 7 >> machine, it didn't get recognized. > > plug in the usb disk and then wait for a few seconds (~ 5 seconds) and > see what you have in the kernel log ( run the command "dmesg | tail > -n 30" on a terminal). Copy paste the output of that command in a > reply so that we can see if it is just an error with the partition > table (or something similar) or a bigger issue. > > oops , sorry I guess I missed out the links in the first mail, if you are looking at recovering the data on the drive the best thing to do is to create an image of the disk and then do whatever you want to do on that image. Use dd.
For example , say your pen drive is attached to the node /dev/sda2 , do something like this : dd if=/dev/sda2 of=drive_backup then you will have all the data on the drive also on the file image drive_backup, you can then try recovery tools on the image. Cheers Satish -- http://satisheerpini.net _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
