From: Mike Bushroe <[email protected]> > I have just discovered that one of my USB thumb drives is no longer > readable. At first, Linux reported a short MBF or partition read? > Now, after running some demo only mode data recovery programs in > Windows, it does not register or open at all.
If "dd if=/dev/sdN of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1" returns errors, then you've probably got serious hardware problems. You could try using dd_rescue to make a copy of the disk, but I wouldn't hold out too much hope for that. Whatever you do, turn off any automounter thing, because it'll do stupid things when presented with a failing disk. When you plug the drive in, what does dmesg say about the drive? Reproduce those messages for us. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
