On 5/7/25 6:35 AM, George N. White III wrote:
On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM home user via users
<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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.
It makes sense to me to not write to the stick I'm trying to recover
data from. If I have done anything that changed the stick, it was
unknowingly.
So I have people saying I should use ddrescue, and people saying I
should use testdisk. Please come to an agreement on how to best recover
what I can from my stick of back-ups!
I've read the man pages for both testdisk and ddrescue. They're skimpy,
ok for experienced users but not adequate for a first-timer at this,
especially as I'm not an IT professional. I've also looked at other
on-line material for both commands, including what Tim referred me to.
Better, but still not enough. I also saw somewhere that dd by itself
should not be used, it either misses something or generates some extra
stuff.
If it matters, the stick was not bootable.
What's the next step?
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