Re: [Hampshire] USB pen drive recovery software

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Author: Pierre Cazenave
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] USB pen drive recovery software
Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Does anyone know any good simple (and most importantly free) Linux or
> Windows software for USB drive recovery? The wife has been keeping all her
> files on her USB stick which has just died. I've had a play with gdbrescue
> but I couldn't make it work for me.
>
> All the software I've seen through googling either looks to be dodgy sites
> or not freeware i.e. it'll let you see what's available but you'l have to
> cough up some money to actually recover the data.
>
> Cheers
> Rob
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photorec and testdisk are likely to be good starts. photorec is not just
for photos, despite its name.

Pierre

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