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2009-01-27 19:22:40
Harmor
Error_Name_Not_Found
+605|6813|San Diego, CA, USA
I have a USB drive, pretty old, that all of a sudden would prompt me to format it.

It shows up as a drive, but when I try to access it it prompts me to format it.

Anyway to try to salvage the information on the USB Thumb Drive??
2009-01-28 00:12:54
cospengle
Member
+140|6751|Armidale, NSW, Australia
It appears so. But I've never tried it.
2009-01-28 03:31:04
_Dominiko_PL
TITS or gtfo.
+97|6785|Polish state of EU

jamiet757 wrote:

Nope, you can't. USB drives store data electronically, where HDD's store it magnetically. When you delete a file on a HDD, the file still remains, but the drive marks those sectors as writeable. So next time you save something, it replaces those sectors. It does not work that way on a USB drive.

Once you delete something on a USB drive, it is gone.

All those things in the link above are just ploys to get your money, they do not actually work.
Its not totally true, all flash cards / usb have actually more MBs than they are supposed to have, the recovery applications should do it
2009-01-28 10:32:51
bad-man
now say you sorry
+34|6112|one windy city
try application called "get data back", i have recovered toasted hd's, failed RAID drives and other shit
2009-01-28 11:23:18
steelie34
pub hero!
+603|6645|the land of bourbon

jamiet757 wrote:

Nope, you can't.
https://bf3s.com/sigs/36e1d9e36ae924048a933db90fb05bb247fe315e.png
2009-01-28 12:16:38
bad-man
now say you sorry
+34|6112|one windy city
i think its doable.... just google it

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2009-01-28 15:46:03
Cheez
Herman is a warmaphrodite
+1,027|6703|King Of The Islands

steelie34 wrote:

jamiet757 wrote:

Nope, you can't.
Except that, you know, I've used Recuva to get pictures back.

But aside from that it's entirely impossible.
My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.
2009-01-28 16:05:43
bad-man
now say you sorry
+34|6112|one windy city
lies, lies all lies ...
2009-01-28 16:38:13
cospengle
Member
+140|6751|Armidale, NSW, Australia

jamiet757 wrote:

steelie34 wrote:

jamiet757 wrote:

Nope, you can't.
I don't know how many more people it will take to say no for anyone to get the idea.
lol maybe start a poll

In any case, I don't see why you couldn't recover data. Most thumb drives use FAT, so I don't understand why you couldn't repair it the same way as you would repair a corrupted HDD. It's possible that the flash memory has just shat itself, which would be no good, but if it's just data corruption in the mbr/allocation table it should be able to be repaired.

BTW, did you unplug the drive while it was being written?

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