[BBLISA] USB drive recovery

[Eddy Harvey]

Doesn't this suggestion assume the device is accessible?

Scott, maybe I'm wrong, but based on your question, I've been assuming the
drive died, and it's simply no longer functional.  Right?

If the drive is completely dead, I think your only option is to try
contacting the manufacturer to see if they'll do it.  And assuming they
don't, then you put a little effort into popping the drive apart and see if
there's a failed component you could replace.  And then you'll see it's all
one chip (or 4) and then you'll accept defeat and tell your user there's
nothing that can be done.


 

-----Original Message-----
From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf
Of Tom Metro
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:16 AM
To: Scott Nixon
Cc: L-bblisa
Subject: Re: [BBLISA] USB drive recovery

Scott Nixon wrote:
> Do any of you have suggestions on how to recover a USB thumb drive?

There was a thread on this topic on the BLU list:

http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/2005-August/023130.html

which included a reference to this article:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8366

My recollection of the article was that the author spent a lot of time
manually dissecting the low-level details of the file system, as opposed to
using automated recovery tools, so this may not be the way you want to go
unless you want to spend a lot of time on it.

You might be better off using one of the automated recovery tools made for
Windows, such as Restorer2000 (http://www.restorer2000.com/r2k.htm),
which I've used, or PC INSPECTOR
(http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm), which is free. 
I see some of these recovery vendors now specifically market their tools for
USB flash drive recovery.

  -Tom

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