How to recover data from a flash drive?

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max_mara2011-07-11 02:05:51

USB flash drives

max_mara, 2011-07-11 02:05:51

Perhaps this is already a hackneyed topic, but still.

There is a 2gb flash drive.
It contains very important information.
When I insert it, a new device appears in the device manager (Windows), that's all.
Those. the new disk does not appear, it does not even ask to be formatted.
What to do?

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oioki, 2011-07-11
@oioki

Here is a good site on this topic flashboot.ru/
It all depends on the manufacturer of the chip and the type of memory.
With the help of information from this site, I myself managed to restore a couple of flash drives. For example, this one helped flashboot.ru/index.php?name=News&op=article&sid=27

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Anton Pronin, 2011-07-11
@nightw0rk

If it is detected, then the flash controller is still alive. The problem is in the memory card itself. I advised Victoria to walk through it first, bad block`s will heal. and after that run something like Recuva. If there is a system with Linux available, there is an option to copy the entire flash drive using “dd”, and set “foremost” on this file

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ComodoHacker, 2011-07-14
@ComodoHacker

If Ubuntu is available, as you write, the sequence is as follows.
0. Disable automount (in Nautilus and elsewhere)
1. Insert, look at syslog. If you recognize it, we rejoice. If not, dance with a tambourine and Google
2. ddrescue (preliminarily smoke mana)
3. Photorec (if it doesn’t work right away, smoke mana)
4. If not everything is restored or the formats are exotic, try something else on the image (R-Studio, ZAR etc.).

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Konstantin Frolov, 2011-07-11
@nitro80

I don’t know if you tried it or not, it doesn’t say: in the computer management, select the “Disk Management” item and check there whether the drive is assigned a letter or not.

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Ziklon, 2011-07-11
@Ziklon

There is an Easy Recovery program that recovers flash drives with a damaged file system. Try it.

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SkyRZN, 2011-07-11
@SkyRZN

If it is somehow recognized as a disk, it will help - R-Studio

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Dmitry, 2011-07-21
@Tomasina

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