Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

2009-11-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 11/19/2009 3:22 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> I suspect you did nothing wrong and that the problem is either a >> coincidental hardware failure or something the owner did to the stick >> after you returned it. Convincing the owner of that

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

2009-11-19 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 11/19/2009 3:22 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: I suspect you did nothing wrong and that the problem is either a coincidental hardware failure or something the owner did to the stick after you returned it. Convincing the owner of that is another matter. I am pretty sure that this is the case. The

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

2009-11-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 Nov 2009, at 03:30, Jesús Guerrero wrote: ... In any case, and to max the chance to recover anything, the first thing you should be doing is an image of the device, using dd, just in case. This. Then run Photorec on the image. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

2009-11-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:30:46 +0100, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > Even if you didn't, in my understanding, all that could cause (normally) > is a broken file system. The effects will usually depends on whatever > was happening at the moment, and at the fs you are using. As he was only reading from the

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

2009-11-18 Thread Philip Webb
091119 Alan E. Davis wrote: > A student handed me a USB flash drive with a video file on it > he wanted to offer to me to watch. It mounted automatically, > I copied the file, then I took the disk out and gave it to him. > I cannot say with 100% certainty that I unmounted it. > The file was comple

Re: [gentoo-user] flash drive FAT partition disappears

2009-11-18 Thread Jesús Guerrero
Hello, first, the disclaimer: take everything I'll say here as a starting point, not as an universal truth. I am by no means specialist in this kind of toys. On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:46:36 +, "Alan E. Davis" wrote: > I can't think of a specific place to look for this, so will try the > eclecti