On 7 May 2025 at 9:35, George N. White III wrote: From: "George N. White III" <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> Date sent: Wed, 7 May 2025 09:35:10 -0300 Subject: Re: recovering back-up. To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM home user via users > <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] > It is a "MICRO CENTER" stick, probably bought in a Microcenter store > in > Rockville, Maryland at least 10 years ago. > > It does not always flash. > > Good news: fake USB drives were rare 10 years ago. Most claim much > higher capacity than 14 GB. > > Bad news: USB flash drives have a limited lifetime. I suspect your drive > has failed. You might be able to recover some data with ddrescue. You > should avoid writing on the drive as it may just do more damage. Just to note there is a tool to check for fake USB and test USB drives. The latest version from Fedora Repo is f3-8.0-8.fc41.x86_64 There is a newer version on https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3 Link to download latest https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3/zipball/master Change log show Version 9.0 - Mar 27, 2025 * f3read/f3write: Avoid the execution stack to list files * f3read/f3write: Add dynamic buffers * f3read/f3write: chroot(2) to source/target dir if allowed * Portability improvements for Ubuntu, ARM, OpenBSD, and Apple * Automated test of the code with GitHub Actions * Improved documentation Version 8.0 - Oct 29, 2020 * f3read: add parameter --max-read-rate * f3read: report speed, percentage, remaining time like f3write * f3write: improve speed measurement (commit 791acdc32627...) * f3probe: handle rare assertion failure (issue #82 ENODATA) The files it includes are f3brew f3fix f3probe f3read f3write Have found it useful for testing USB devices. It finds fake devices, and can try to correct to real size, which is usually very small. Generally, just throw away fake USBs. Good Luck. > > -- > George N. White III > +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxx Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
