On Friday 18 May 2007 16:16, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Friday 18 May 2007 15:11, Mick wrote: > > On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > > Did you try the recovery tools for the FS in question? > > > > I tried fsck.msdos but didn't fix it. [snip... lot's of good advice]
> Bottom line: I would not bet on data recovery from that stick. > It's also true that there might be some program I'm unaware of which > could try or be able to recover things, but unfortunately I have no > advice for you about this. Guys, thank you sooo much! I used fdisk to create a single partition FAT16 fs. Then I used testdisk which would not recover any partitions, but it could at least see the partition (despite the fact that I could not mount /dev/sda1 from the command line due to the previously reported errors). Then I used photorec which worked out its magic and recovered a load of files (some were corrupted) - wey hey! :) My friend is happy and so am I proving to him that Linux can save your skin - I'm no Linux evangelist, as I believe that there are "horses for courses", but I suspect we may have a convert. Let's see if he starts asking for a Gentoo install CD next. Ha! Thanks again for your help. -- Regards, Mick
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