File recovery

[Lars Christian Nygård]

Hi

Don't know what you mean by broken, but I'll assume it got filesystem errors
on it.
Here is a couple of hints

apt-cache search fat

I guess the key is FAT32 formated. maybe there is some fat utilities in the
repository. Then...

1. Make a work copy of the image to lets say usbimage-backup.img
2. Try and mount it with "-o loop", as other has suggested.
3. If mount was unsuccessfull try and fix it with "fsck -y
usbimage-backup.img"
4. If still no success, try with some other tools.
5. hmm...i don't know...time to get creative...?

-lars

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:59 PM, David Fletcher <
kubuntu-users at thefletchers.net> wrote:

> I've got an image of a broken USB flash drive, taken using dd, which
> contains
> a word document that a colleague would rather like recovered.
>
> I can open the file with khexedit and see the text, but range export
> insists
> on exporting the entire khexedit display not just the text I want.
>
> Is there any data recovery software in the repositories that might help
> with
> extracting this document?
>
> Dave
>
>
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