On 4/13/08, Brian Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nathan wrote: > > BEFORE YOU TRY ANYTHING do yourself a a favor and copy the entire > > flash drive contents to a file. And then make a copy of that file. > > Then you'll always have something you can do forensics on. :) > > > > dd if=/dev/sdc of=somefile > > Why not use testdisk? I used it on the wrecked partition of a USB external > hard drive and it got all the files off lickity split. > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk >
While waiting for the wisdom to come down from on high, I found testdisk. Worked like a champ. Durring the deep scan it found the superblock in the middle of the drive and was able to re-create the partition table with no loss of data. Another tool to add to my utility belt. (It's little tools like this that make us look like super heros.) -- ~ Mark Gardner ~ *** LEADERSHIP is a flavor of evil. Obviously no one would need to lead you to do something you wanted to do anyway." — Scott Adams, "Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life" -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list