USB Memory Stick Recovery

From:	graphitone	19 Mar 2015 21:46
To:	fixrman	21 of 77

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I've had a go with Knoppix. Looks like it does what Ant said initially, combined with testdisk/photorec which is what I've been trying already. Had some success though, the wife's found an older USB stick that had most of what was on the encrypted drive, she'd cut and paste the stuff from it to the new one, so I've managed to recover a fair bit. The task's still going and is constantly jumping between 45mins to 2 and half hours to finish, but finger's crossed. :) Drawings n' that

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From:	fixrman	20 Mar 2015 01:46
To:	graphitone	22 of 77

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Let's hope. How in the bloody hell did it get encrypted?

Did you ever see such a messed up situation in your whole life, son?

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	20 Mar 2015 01:52
To:	fixrman	23 of 77

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Encrypted + no back up = boner move. ---- "Apple Pay accepted at up to 100,000 Coca-Cola machines"

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	20 Mar 2015 02:04
To:	graphitone	24 of 77

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The data was intact, it didn't need to be reformatted or anything. If you're asking about the coin- op laundry, they have a lifespan of like two years and have more horrendous shit to deal with than the odd USB key. ---- "Apple Pay accepted at up to 100,000 Coca-Cola machines"

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From:	graphitone	20 Mar 2015 09:13
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	25 of 77

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"have more horrendous shit to deal" Presumably, quite literally. Drawings n' that

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From:	graphitone	20 Mar 2015 09:16
To:	fixrman	26 of 77

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The memory sticks were given out to all teachers 'cos they had an encryption facility built in. The teacher's set their password on the stick's data vault and it's less of an issue if they've got sensitive info about the kids on there if they ever lose it. She was going to back it up. Honest. It's only a week or two old, so as people have said, probably something fundamentally wrong with the hardware. She's taking it back to work today to see if they can claim the cost back. Drawings n' that

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From:	fixrman	20 Mar 2015 12:02
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	27 of 77

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That's why I don't encrypt anything. I am boner; I don't back up anything. (pyfitg)

Did you ever see such a messed up situation in your whole life, son?

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From:	fixrman	20 Mar 2015 12:02
To:	graphitone	28 of 77

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Cost? You didn't buy Knoppix, did you?

By the way, I should have warned you to turn the speakers down before you ran Knoppix. Did the girl announcing, "Initiating Startup sequence" startle you? :-P

Did you ever see such a messed up situation in your whole life, son?

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From:	graphitone	20 Mar 2015 12:45
To:	fixrman	29 of 77

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No, cost for the stick itself, it's still under warranty, so they should be able to claim it back. I've not used Knoppix before and the voices did unnerve me a tad. The woman's voice at the start was ok, nice and reassuring, it's when Stephen Hawking took over in the OS itself and started describing everything I was doing. I quite liked the exploding animation when closing down a window. The first time. After that I just wanted it to close down the window and not take 3 seconds over it. :-& Drawings n' that

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	20 Mar 2015 16:20
To:	fixrman	30 of 77

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My enthusiasm for backups is inversely proportional to time elapsed since disk failure. ---- "Apple Pay accepted at up to 100,000 Coca-Cola machines"

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From:	fixrman	20 Mar 2015 17:03
To:	graphitone	31 of 77

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You can turn that off, but alas - it starts again when rebooted Live.

I wouldn't bother installing it if you were thinking of it; it really isn't meant to be installed.

I like the exploding Windows. I just engaged that on Mint, though it doesn't take 3 seconds, less than 1 actually.

Good luck.

Did you ever see such a messed up situation in your whole life, son?

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From:	fixrman	20 Mar 2015 17:04
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	32 of 77

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Unfortunately, my sentiments are the same. (fail) Why perform a backup if I can have another pint and not? (bounce)

Did you ever see such a messed up situation in your whole life, son?

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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	30 Mar 2015 23:12
To:	ALL	33 of 77

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Same thing but hard drive recovery. I'm not sure it's going to be possible though. My daughter pulled my parents' laptop off the cabinet and it looks like it damaged the HDD. She said it was wroking fine for a bit but after a while it rebooted, then said drive error at post. My usual GetDataBack can't do anything with it. It recognises the drive but just hangs while Windows is trying to make its mind up. So, anything else I can try? Me

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From:	koswix	30 Mar 2015 23:36
To:	Chris (CHRISSS)	34 of 77

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Freezer?


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If Feds call you and say something bad on me, it may prove what I said are truth, they are afraid of it.

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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	30 Mar 2015 23:41
To:	koswix	35 of 77

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Think I might try that. It worked once years ago. I booted the laptop from a Linux USB drive and it can mount the partition as read-only but doesn't show any contents. Me

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From:	koswix	30 Mar 2015 23:50
To:	Chris (CHRISSS)	36 of 77

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Never tried it, but sounds like it's dead anyway so no harm in giving it a shot.


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If Feds call you and say something bad on me, it may prove what I said are truth, they are afraid of it.

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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	31 Mar 2015 00:07
To:	koswix	37 of 77

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I'm pretty sure it did work. Had a HDD that couldn't be read in Windows, froze it and when I took it out of the freezer it worked for a little while, long enough to get some data off. It does look like the drive is dead unfortunately. Nothing backed up from it, years of stuff on there :S Worth a shot at putting it in the freezer. Me

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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	31 Mar 2015 01:42
To:	ALL	38 of 77

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Wonderful. I can access the recovery partition fine but the rest just doesn't seem to work :( Me

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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	31 Mar 2015 07:35
To:	ALL	39 of 77

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Freezer didn't help. Same thing this morning. Maybe it wasn't in there long enough. More likely it's DEAD. Me

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	31 Mar 2015 08:53
To:	Chris (CHRISSS)	40 of 77

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But the recovery partition still works? dd the whole device to an image. ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ └─┘

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