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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.361 / Virus Database: 267.12.5/147 - Release Date: 10/24/2005 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.361 / Virus Database: 267.12.5/147 - Release Date: 10/24/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.361 / Virus Database: 267.12.5/147 - Release Date: 10/24/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.361 / Virus Database: 267.12.5/147 - Release Date: 10/24/2005 _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
