[plug] USB flash data recovery

[Max]

On the topic of USB flash data recovery,
OK if the computer can see something to mount .

But, what could be done to recover, if the computer / OS refuses to see 
a USB flash mem key or any unrecognized device
  ie: my Rundisk 1Gb ' UR24 '  .
Nothing to mount ?

http://www.irundisk.com/english/

A quick fix to use the key again at a mates place, how embarrassing !
I had to download a Windows GUI exe file, and run it on a windows comp 
just to get it recognized on any computer again,
it was a re-initialize / format piece of software.
that was the only time i ever had a problem with it.

But if the data was important, or even not, 
What software could i have used to achieve that using linux.
Is this the same problem with other brands of USB keys ?
Cause personally, i hate to justify the use of windows for anything.
Any ideas what could be done if it happens again ?



On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:32 am, Andrew Furey wrote:
> On 10/6/06, Daniel Foote <freefoote at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If the data is not actually scrambled on the disk (ie, the FAT is
> > stuffed but the data is ok) you might be able to use something like
> > Foremost (http://foremost.sourceforge.net/). Given an image of a
> > disk, it will look for signatures of files inside that image (it
> > supports quite a few formats) and then extracts them.
> >
> > I have not actually used it (solved the problem I had another way),
> > but it is written by the US government for forensic recovery
> > purposes.
>
> Along the same lines, I've had good experiences with magicrescue
> (http://jbj.rapanden.dk/magicrescue/) in the past, which seems to
> work reliably for at least doc, xls, ppt, jpg, png, and zip. You can
> also supposedly define your own "recipes" for other file formats,
> although I've never tried it.
>
> Andrew