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From: "Pierre Cazenave" <pwcazenave@???>
To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 7:21 PM
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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Just to say "thanks" to all that replied. PC Inspector is pretty good and
has got most of the files back.
Cheers
Rob
