Hi Andrew! I appreciate your timely advice. I couldn't get to the stage where I could run Testdisk because I wasn't able to mount the image. Photorec however recovered the files (about a 108), though the integrity of the files is questionable. I was told that there was a powerpoint presentation on the disk (among other types of files), it seems to have recovered 'a' .ppt file but it contains only one slide. I had selected an option in Photorec that saves broken files as well (or something to that effect that I can't remember now). I then also used Foremost, which has recovered about 5300 files, it created directories of the various file types. And under the .ppt directory I see a long list of .ppt files. I haven't had the time to look through them yet but I'm assuming these are fragmented bits and pieces of one ppt presentation?
Best wishes, Shehab. On 18 October 2010 18:44, andrew zajac <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Shehab. > > First, I would make a backup of the image. Then I would try running > Testdisk on the image, to see if it can find and restore any partitions. > > If that fails, of if the newly recovered partitions are still unmountable > due to filesystem corruption, I would use Photorec (included with the > Testdisk package) to try to carve files form the image. > > That's it... > > Andrew > > > --- On *Mon, 10/18/10, Shehab Kazi <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Shehab Kazi <[email protected]> > Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] Proceeding further after running ddrescue . > To: [email protected] > Received: Monday, October 18, 2010, 7:08 AM > > > Hi! > > I have a 'corrupt' 4GB usb memory stick that Windows says needs to be > formatted. Linux (Debian Lenny) recognises it as /dev/sdc but will not mount > it giving a very general mount error. > > I was able to run 'dd' without any problems and made an image backup. I > then ran 'ddrescue' as well to make another image without any problems > (though I'm not sure if it was even necessary to run 'ddrescue in my case). > So maybe the data itself is fine but only the partition table is corrupt? > > When I had tried to run 'testdisk' on the memory stick, it returns saying > that it can't find any partitions on the drive. I read some posts on this > forum about trying to use data carving tools on the image like 'foremost'. I > will try that when I get home but was wondering if someone has some more > advice on how I should proceed. I need to access/rescue the files that are > stored on the image created with ddrescue/dd. > > Any help will be appreciated. I understand that ddrescue is doing its job > and I need help with what to do with the rescued image. > > Best wishes, > Shehab. > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-ddrescue mailing list > [email protected] <http://mc/[email protected]> > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue > > >
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