[plug] USB flash data recovery

[Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions)]

Quoting caston at arach.net.au:

> Quoting Daniel Foote <freefoote at gmail.com>:
> 
> > > grab a dd copy before you do anything further in both linux or doze.
> > > Its probably too late, but its much easier to do this before it is
> > > totally stuffed up (i.e., macs do some wonderful one way conversions
> > > when you plug a stick into some of the older ones!, and doze revovery
> > > utilities may not be successful, so an image means you get more goes at
> > > it.)
> > >
> > > If all else fails, you can "strings" the image and can sometimes recover
> > > something!
> > 
> > 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/). G
> 
> Thanks Daniel, (and everyone else that replied)
> 
> I just got back from the job. It looks like she had been continuing to save
> stuff to the memory key even after the corruption.
> 
> I was able to recover one of her assignments using the pc inspector data
> recovery and by going through a whole bunch of .tmp files.
> 
> I did try the Linux based instructions I had on one of my own memory keys
> before
> I left for the job but each step took a very time and she said it wasn't
> that
> important.

So the question on everyone's mind, are you cooking dinner? ;)