Recovery "damaged" USB pen drive

[Hector Barrios Molano]

Hi everybody
A friend give me a "damaged" USB pen drive to fix it because in Windows show
"insert disc on unit *", when I insert this pen drive on Kubuntu, kubuntu
doesn't recognize it, in contrast whit my USB pen drive, I don't know why?

I went to /dev/ and search my pen drive in sdc1 and I found two files sdc
and sdc1, beside these was a file names sdb I guess that that is of the
"damaged" pen drive.

Then I wrote on console *dmesg* and it show me:

[16073.639128] usb 5-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address
19
[16073.771574] usb 5-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[16073.782906] scsi16 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[16073.789187] usb-storage: device found at 19
[16073.789193] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[16078.784584] usb-storage: device scan complete
[16078.785569] scsi 16:0:0:0: Direct-Access     USBest   USB2FlashStorage
0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[16078.801066] sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[16078.801121] sd 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

This is the part where the system recognize the "damaged" pen drive


Someone can help me to recovery the data inside the pen drive, is it
possible?, to later format it, if it's necessary and possible.

Thanks everyone and I hope you understand me and can help me.
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