That's a good idea, thanks, but no good yesterday.  

I've done this for pictures too, but what a pain for anything else.  I found a 
nice program for saving jpegs, but recognizing them takes two lines of code 
to look for the beginning and end markers of the file.  If all you have is 
jpegs and lots of them, this is worth the effort and time.  Mixed files would 
be more difficult and something like a word doc?  forget it.  All I wanted 
yesterday was a few bytes of text, dding the whole device was just not worth 
it.  

It would be nicer if the device maker had simply stuck to well known specs.  
If that was happening here, it would have been easy to resize the ntfs 
partition and there would be no thread about "cluster errors".

On Thursday 13 October 2005 09:51 pm, -ray wrote:

> When i've encountered this with USB sticks or CF cards, i normally make a
> dd image of the device, then disconnect the hardware.  Then you can run
> any kind of fsck on the image you want.  Had a cf card where the fat was
> totally trashed, but was able to save a few digital pics off that the
> owner thought were just unrecoverable.
>
> ray

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