Hi All, A colleague used a USB stick on his home machine and when he brought it to work he can no longer access it using WinXP. I offered to help with my Gentoo laptop (as one ought to rise to the challenge!) but it seems that Linux is also struggling to get to it: ========================================== usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 2 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB BAR 1.89 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 SCSI device sda: 255744 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 255744 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: unknown partition table sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete UDF-fs: No VRS found Unable to identify CD-ROM format. FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535 VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda. NTFS-fs warning (device sda): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot sector checksum. NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid. NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover. NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume. hfs: can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda. VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda. VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda. ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda ==========================================
I tried to dd the boot sector so that I can look at it on my hard drive, but it cannot access /dev/sda. Is there anything that I can do with my Gentoo to recover the files on this USB? -- Regards, Mick
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