[BBLISA] USB drive recovery

[Scott Nixon]

Thank you all for your suggestions. I tried to mount the drive on a Mac
and with Knoppix to no avail. I looked into Adam's suggestion about
finding the spec for flash file systems but kind of ran out of time. I
decide to call Iomega data recovery and they think it maybe the
controller chip. Iomega does free evaluations on the recoverability of
drives so I put the USB drive in the mail yesterday. Adam, I wish I
could talk to management about this but I don't think there is anyone in
charge of my girlfriend but I can check. Being the personal IT guy for
friends and family can sometimes be a daunting task.
 
later.

	-----Original Message-----  
	From: Linda Chock [mailto:lchock at mitre.org] 
	Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 7:16 PM
	To: Scott Nixon; bblisa at bblisa.org
	Subject: Re: [BBLISA] USB drive recovery
	
	
	No suggestion for recovery, but a word of caution....
	
	Plugging the flash drive into a USB port of a keyboard doesn't
supply sufficient power, and corrupted my file directory, so none of the
files could be modified or deleted.  Most were still readable, but
didn't have proper authority to make any changes!
	
	Linda
	
	
	On 10/24/05 3:29 AM, "Scott Nixon" <snixon at winsor.edu> wrote:
	
	

		Do any of you have suggestions on how to recover a USB
thumb drive? I though about booting with Knoppix or the like and
mounting the drive as read-only.
		
		I hate it when people don't backup.
		
		Thanks,
		
		Scott
		
		
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