:(ĭoesn't matter about all the rest of the story - the damage was already done.ĭepending on the condition of the USB stick, unless you want to pay big $$ for a professional forensic recovery project, I would say cut your losses, andĭd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=1 Obviously, the stick was removed before this happened - I wonder whether "safely remove" or "eject" was used? Probably not. (For the hell of it - I know it would hardly break the bank to replace it!)Ĭould someone kindly suggest a way forward?Īnd ideas about my non-functioning Storage Device Manager would be welcome too.
But the bottom line is at least to regain the full 4gb pendrive. Ideally, I want to save those two video files if I possibly can. I don't want to format a 4gb drive to 300mb, or risk any further damage/corruption till I have a better idea of what may have happened and what my recovery options are. Run Gparted again and now it shows the usb stick as sdi and 300mb!įire up Win XP in Virtual Box and Win XP sees the drive straight away, identifies it as NX216 but says it's not formatted.
tabs, is greyed out) accompanied by clicking noise from bowels of pc Run Storage Device Manager again, but it doesn't work (sda, b, c & d show in Partition List pane, but the main pane with General Config. Now, Device 013 is listed as "GEMBIRD PhotoFrame PF-15-1", which I don't recognise. When it did list it, it was "Device 013". TD creates image.dd successfully (which I still have) but can't retrieve any files.Īt this stage, lsusb still lists NX216, but after some further poking around (I confess I've lost track here) it doesn't. Run Storage Device Manager which shows the same.Ī lot of googling and trying a few things ending up running TestDisk. Run Gparted and the usb stick shows as sde and 4gb but no partition table. Plug usb stick into desktop pc running Ubuntu 12.04. Plug usb stick back in and get error message: "Can't read device. Several hours later, when remembered again, reactivate Humax from screensaver and note no copying still going on, so remove usb stick Ĭheck for copied video on Humax HDD and it's not there. Some time later, still in second location, NX216 is again plugged into Humax and one of the video files is copied across to HDD on Humax. NX216 travels to different location, is plugged into identical Humax and saved recordings are watched. Straight from shop to Humax Foxsat-HDR and used to copy two video recordings. The story so far, in brief and as far as I remember it: