No luck with 512mb pen drive Help!

[zack Dezear]

hi all

I removed my pen-drive from my usb port when data was still not written to it. Now when i plug it in it comes up with RAW and I am using V 3.94 and i have used both

Complete file search (9 hrs) nothing
complete format recover (9 hrs) nothing
I need the data on my pen drive is there a way

Pen-Drive Integral 512mb

Computer Dell Precision M50 (usb 1.1)

zack

[GDH]

Zak,

It would be best if you can take an image of the drive so that I can have a look. Please try and take an image of your Pen drive.

Download Ezy Imager: http://www.getdata.com/download.php?FILE=EzyImager.exe.

Plug your Pen drive in.

Run EzyImager.

Select the pen drive in the drive list (you should be able to tell which one it is by the size).

Write the image to a file on your PC called C:\image.raw.

Now ZIP this file with WinZip and let me know how big it is.

Thanks.

[zack Dezear]

Ok i did that but I could'nt tell which one was the USB Pen drive from the list...... so i did the second one 0: Physical drive

0: physical drive
1: physical drive
C: {no label} 18.63 GB

1: physical drive comes up with the following error

Error no.23
drv:1 LBA:0 # Sectors:1

Size = 509967360
Number of partitions = 0
Number of sectors = 996030
Number of cyclinders = 62
Number of heads = 255
Number of sectors/track = 63
Number of bytes/sector = 512


0: Physical drive

Size = 20003880960
Number of partitions = 1
Number of sectors = 39070080
Number of cyclinders = 2432
Number of heads = 255
Number of sectors/track = 63
Number of bytes/sector = 512

and it produced a 14gb file

And this is where i'm stuck , as My Hard drive is only 20GB, so i could'nt zip it with WINRAR.


I could try it on my other laptop (Dell Inspiron 9300) which has 55GB of free space if you want me to

[GDH]

Drive 0 is the physical drive resides.

Drive 1 is your pen drive. Try and image this.

[zack Dezear]

Hi

I tryed Physical drive 1

But i keep getting errors

Error no 23

drv 1: LBA : 1692 # sectors :1


{ I had to hold down the Enter button} as the LBA started errors at 1, but holding it down the Enter moves it on but I gave up at 1692 as it error after error on each step and it goes upto 996020

I guess there's no way... shame does that mean throw it in the bin, as i have lost hope that i'll never retreve my files on it :-(

[GDH]

Your pen drive has physical errors and cannot be read by a PC.

Your only hope now is to send it to a hardware data recovery service - however this can sometimes be an expensive option.

[zack Dezear]

Oh Marvelous!!

It was Jpeg Files of Scenery, which I can take again i'm not really that fussy, as i'm not paying for it.

Anyway of formatting the drive so that i can re-use it.

Again if i can't I'm not really fussy as its only a 512mb.

I got all my proper stuff backed onto 3 Verbatim DVD+R DL (8.5 gb)

Which I recommend to all people to do... Verbatim only (4.7 or 8.5 gb)

zack

[GDH]

If you cant get your PC to see the drive connected then there is no way to format and use the drive.