[gentoo-user] Re: Corrupt xD card with photos

2006-09-12 Thread Remy Blank
Sven Köhler wrote: First thing that i see is: where the hell is /dev/sda1? Yes, there should be a FAT partition on that xD card, but it's not there. So first step: Re-create a primary FAT partition without formatting it (for example use cfdisk) This is worth a try. However, I would first

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Corrupt xD card with photos

2006-09-12 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 08:26, Remy Blank wrote: This is worth a try. However, I would first dump the whole card to a file, make a copy of the file, and try all recovery attempts on the copy. This way, you can always go back to the original and try something else. Blast! Too late now -

[gentoo-user] Re: Corrupt xD card with photos

2006-09-11 Thread Sven Köhler
I was handed what seems to be a corrupt xD flash card to extract the last photo from it. When the WinXP system at work coughed and died on it (couldn't read it) I thought that my Linux would do better. Anyhow, I've inserted it into my Fuji camera and this is what dmesg shows: