USB Memory Stick Recovery - Teh Forum

<body> <div id="header"> <span class="left"> <span class="back"><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT"><span class="image mobile_back" title="Back"></span></a></span> <span class="image mobile_logo" title="Beehive Forum Logo"></span> </span> <ul> <li> <a class="reply_all" href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41441.0&return_msg=41441.1"> <span class="image mobile_reply_all"></span><span class="text">Reply to All</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="navigation" href="#"> <span class="image mobile_navigation"></span><span class="text">Show messages</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="main" href="#"><span class="image mobile_menu" title="Menu"></span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu main"> <ul> <li><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Messages</a></li> <li><a href="lpm.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Inbox</a></li> <li><a href="lsearch.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Search</a></li> <li><a href="llogon.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Login</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu navigation"><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.1">1–10</a><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.11">11–20</a>…<a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.71">71–77</a></div> <div id="page_content"> <h3 class="thread_title"><a href="index.php?webtag=DEFAULT&amp;msg=41441.1">USB Memory Stick Recovery</a> </h3> <div id="messages" data-navigation="41441_1_77_10"> <a name="a41441_1"></a><div class="message" id="message_41441_1"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: graphitone<span class="message_time">18 Mar 2015 21:34</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ALL<span class="message_count">1 of 77</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.1">41441.1</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Bonjour la class.<br /><br /> The wife's handed me a seemingly dead USB stick, a SanDisk Extreme 16GB job, which had been encrypted. It's got a load of her school planning work on it, and it's not being recognised on her Windows machine. I tried it on my PC, and it installed the drivers, but after that nothing in disk management (which it hung) and no other sign of life other that a flicker of the access light.<br /><br /> I've tried <a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec">PhotoRec</a> which seemed to be doing the job, running from a command prompt, but was going to take over 400 estimated hours to finish, plus I don't know if it'll recover encrypted files. <span class="emoticon e_unsure" title=":/"><span class="e__">:/</span></span> I'm trying <a href="http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizardpro/">Easus Data Recovery</a> which says it will do encrypted files, but it's just a trial.<br /><br /> Anyone know of any other software that'll do the job? Don't mind trying it on Linux either, though I think it's an NTFS format.<br /><br /> Oh, and no backup was made. <span class="emoticon e_crying" title=":(("><span class="e__">:((</span></span></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41441.1&return_msg=41441.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41441.1"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41441_2"></a><div class="message" id="message_41441_2"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: ANT_THOMAS<span class="message_time">18 Mar 2015 21:39</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: graphitone <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 18 Mar 2015 21:45"></span></span> <span class="message_count">2 of 77</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.2">41441.2</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.1#a41441_1" target="_self">41441.1</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I'd try a Linux Live CD/USB (probably ubuntu) - then use something simple like "dd" to take a full image of the device.<br /><br /> A command like this may do the job<br /><br /> sudo dd if=/dev/sdx of=/location/you/want/the/image.img<br /><br /> /dev/sdx needs to be the label of your dodgy USB stick. It will be something like sda, sdb, sdc etc (probably the later letter)<br /><br /> If all that works I'd then transfer the .img to a Windows system and mount it with a drive image mounter (Virtual Clone Drive) and see if that works.<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 18 Mar 2015 21:41 by ANT_THOMAS</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41441.2&return_msg=41441.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41441.2"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41441_3"></a><div class="message" id="message_41441_3"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: graphitone<span class="message_time">18 Mar 2015 21:50</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ANT_THOMAS <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 18 Mar 2015 21:50"></span></span> <span class="message_count">3 of 77</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.3">41441.3</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.1#a41441_2" target="_self">41441.2</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Thanks, that man. I'll give that a go and report back. <span class="emoticon e_smile" title=":)"><span class="e__">:)</span></span></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41441.3&return_msg=41441.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41441.3"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41441_4"></a><div class="message" id="message_41441_4"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: ANT_THOMAS<span class="message_time">18 Mar 2015 21:55</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: graphitone <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 18 Mar 2015 22:00"></span></span> <span class="message_count">4 of 77</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.4">41441.4</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.1#a41441_3" target="_self">41441.3</a></div> <div class="message_body"> If the stick is buggered taking an image might fail or take aaaaaaaaaages.<br /><br /> Might be worth unmounting the stick if it gets mounted when plugged in.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41441.4&return_msg=41441.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41441.4"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41441_5"></a><div class="message" id="message_41441_5"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: graphitone<span class="message_time">18 Mar 2015 22:02</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ANT_THOMAS <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 18 Mar 2015 22:05"></span></span> <span class="message_count">5 of 77</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.5">41441.5</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.1#a41441_4" target="_self">41441.4</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Dah, it's not being recognised by Linux at all - not showing up as a drive under fdisk or df.<br /><br /> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41441.5&return_msg=41441.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41441.5"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41441_6"></a><div class="message" id="message_41441_6"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: ANT_THOMAS<span class="message_time">18 Mar 2015 22:07</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: graphitone <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 18 Mar 2015 22:09"></span></span> <span class="message_count">6 of 77</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.6">41441.6</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.1#a41441_5" target="_self">41441.5</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Don't worry about that (much). Is it showing up in /dev?<br /> <br /> Unplug it, do : ls /dev<br /> Plug it in, do : ls /dev<br /> <br /> Is the an extra sdx listing?<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 18 Mar 2015 22:08 by ANT_THOMAS</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41441.6&return_msg=41441.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41441.6"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41441_7"></a><div class="message" id="message_41441_7"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Manthorp<span class="message_time">18 Mar 2015 22:09</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: graphitone <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 18 Mar 2015 22:09"></span></span> <span class="message_count">7 of 77</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.7">41441.7</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.1#a41441_1" target="_self">41441.1</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Best I've ever come across is iCare Data Recovery, originally referred to me by someone from the possie (was it CHRISSS?). You can jim recent versions through any high street torrent site.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41441.7&return_msg=41441.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41441.7"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41441_8"></a><div class="message" id="message_41441_8"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: graphitone<span class="message_time">18 Mar 2015 22:17</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: ANT_THOMAS <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 18 Mar 2015 22:29"></span></span> <span class="message_count">8 of 77</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.8">41441.8</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.1#a41441_6" target="_self">41441.6</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Something is..<br /><br /> I've got sda 1 through to 5 without it being plugged in, then an sdb entry with it plugged in. However, when doing:<br /><br /> sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/home/dave/image.img<br /><br /> I get an input/output error reading dev/sdb<br /><br /> <div class="edit_text">EDITED: 18 Mar 2015 22:20 by GRAPHITONE</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41441.8&return_msg=41441.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41441.8"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41441_9"></a><div class="message" id="message_41441_9"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: graphitone<span class="message_time">18 Mar 2015 22:25</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Manthorp <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 19 Mar 2015 09:50"></span></span> <span class="message_count">9 of 77</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.9">41441.9</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.1#a41441_7" target="_self">41441.7</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Cheers, though had a quick go with the trial and it's not seeing the stick at all.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41441.9&return_msg=41441.1" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41441.9"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41441_10"></a><div class="message" id="message_41441_10"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: fixrman<span class="message_time">18 Mar 2015 23:49</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: graphitone <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 19 Mar 2015 09:26"></span></span> <span class="message_count">10 of 77</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.10">41441.10</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41441.1#a41441_9" target="_self">41441.9</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Try Knoppix. 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