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<DIV><SPAN class=753384112-25102005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Thank
you all for your suggestions. I tried to mount the drive on a Mac and with
Knoppix to no avail. I looked into Adam's suggestion
about </FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>find<SPAN
class=753384112-25102005>ing</SPAN> the spec for flash file systems
but kind of ran out of time. </FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
decide to call Iomega data recovery and they think it maybe the
controller chip. Iomega does free evaluations on the recoverability
of drives so I put the USB drive in the mail yesterday. Adam, I wish I
could talk to management about this but I don't think there is anyone in charge
of my girlfriend but I can check. Being the personal IT guy for friends and
family can sometimes be a daunting task.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<SPAN
class=753384112-25102005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN><BR><B>From:</B> Linda Chock
[mailto:lchock@mitre.org] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 24, 2005 7:16
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Scott Nixon; bblisa@bblisa.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[BBLISA] USB drive recovery<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">No suggestion
for recovery, but a word of caution....<BR><BR>Plugging the flash drive into a
USB port of a keyboard doesn’t supply sufficient power, and corrupted my file
directory, so none of the files could be modified or deleted. Most were
still readable, but didn’t have proper authority to make any
changes!<BR><BR>Linda<BR><BR><BR>On 10/24/05 3:29 AM, "Scott Nixon"
<snixon@winsor.edu> wrote:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT face=Arial>Do any of you
have suggestions on how to recover a USB thumb drive? I though about booting
with Knoppix or the like and mounting the drive as
read-only.<BR></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial>I hate it when people don't backup.<BR></FONT><FONT
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial>Thanks,<BR></FONT><FONT
face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial>Scott<BR></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR>
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