[plug] USB flash data recovery

[Richard Meyer]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 21:26 +0800, caston at arach.net.au wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A law student called me up earlier this evening wanting me to help her recover
> some word documents on a usb memory flash drive that appear to scrambled. 
> She didn't send me one of the documents via e-mail and there was no way that
> oo.o could open it.
> 
> I'm there tomorrow afternoon to try to help her. I already got her to try PC
> inspector smart recovery and she wasn't able to recover them with that. 
> 
> I'm going to bring my laptop and I thought it might be an idea to see if I can
> mount the fat32 filesystem on the memory key with Linux and see if there is any
> way I can recover the data.
> 
> Any ideas that may help? 
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Chris Caston

At the risk of being ostracised from the list, and having my posts
deleted unread, it appears that university is good for Chris - at last
he speaks to some girls.   ;-)
-- 
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