USB flash recovery tools?

Jon Pruente jdpruente at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 01:12:25 CDT 2007


To clarify due to the extended discussion here, the file that dd wrote
is 503709696 bytes on both machines.

Jon.

On 3/14/07, Jon Pruente <jdpruente at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a 512MB USB flash keychain.  Tonight I tried to use it and it
> didn't work.  Ack!  So, after some cleaning of contacts and messing
> around I got it to be recognized on my Mac mini, but with no
> filesystem.  I dd'd the contents to a .iso file so I'd at least have
> some sort of backup.  As it stands, the backup file is smaller than it
> should be (480MB?) so I'm not too confident in it.  Anyway, can anyoe
> suggest a recovery tool for the drive itself, or to process a block
> dump?  Either Mac OS or Linux tools would be good.  I'm fairly sure it
> was in FAT32.  So far Googling tends to bring up demos and trial ware.
>


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