Registered: Jan 2001
Location: library
Posts: 19584

Anyone know anything about doing data recovery on one of these?

I use it in the pocket pc, and I was out for most of the weekend, just now, I went to save something on it and got an error message. Browsing the drive with Resco File explorer shows a single .tmp file, containing no data, though viewing the properties shows it as having almost 3 gigs in use, which is about where it should be. I stuck in the usb card reader I have on my desktop, looked at it there and saw about the same thing. Pretty much everything was backed up except what went in over the weekend while I was away from the pc, and I wouldn't mind recovering that.

-m

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Registered: Nov 2000
Location: UK
Posts: 4776

It sounds vaguely like the FAT table has been knackered(rather than something wrong with the actual drive). If you were using Linux I'd dd an image of the disk first and then work on the image. I believe there are tools that'll do the same for Windows but can't think of any off the top of my head.
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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: A New England
Posts: 9187

Symantec Livestate Recovery should do the job.

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Registered: Dec 2002
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if you can find a linux box, you may wanna do what macker reccomends.

as to recovery, i imagine that the sleuthkit does fat
http://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: library
Posts: 19584

Actually I've sucked it all out with PC inspector, now I just have to reformat the microdrive and transfer it all back. And then hope nothing got fucked in the process.

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