If it is simply data deletion (as opposed as running a program designed to actually change all the bits like the boot and nuke live cds, etc.), I recommend <span style>EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard as well for fat, fat32, and ntfs (I'd have to look at the site to see if it work with the ext family)</span><div>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">I corrupted a SD Flash disk with a bunch of travel pictures on it, then took about an hour (in Read Only mode) and had the program do a deep analysis and recovery (onto another disk).</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Data is only lost when the write takes place on the blocks you were trying to recover.</font></div><div>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">I did it all in an internet cafe in Barcelona.<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Scott Castaline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com" target="_blank">skotchman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 06/05/2012 04:13 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> lfd = remove during write<br>
</div>Ooooh, snap, crackle, pop!<br>
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> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Michael H. Warfield <<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com">mhw@wittsend.com</a><br>
</div><div class="im"><mailto:<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com">mhw@wittsend.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 11:13 -0400, david w. millians wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Opinions needed on a flash drive repair service. We have a person who<br>
> > did the laptop-flash-destruction maneuver.<br>
><br>
> What means "laptop-flash-destruction maneuver"? No cutesy terms, what<br>
> happened? Did they delete everything on it? Did it start giving them<br>
> hard errors? Did they run it through a washer and drier? [Actually had<br>
> that happen with a little pocket drive - the NAND Flash chip fell off<br>
> the little PCB from the driver heat. Wasn't anything on it I needed to<br>
> recover, fortunately.] What was the technically correct term for what<br>
> they did and what they got?<br>
><br>
> > Money is not a HUGE object. I<br>
> > found:<br>
> > <a href="http://www.recovermyflashdrive.com" target="_blank">http://www.recovermyflashdrive.com</a><br>
> > and it looks like they could solve the actual issue.<br>
><br>
> I've done recoveries on both rotating magnetic and solid state.<br>
> Services can vary and results can vary depending on the nature of said<br>
> "destruction".<br>
><br>
> > Thanks,<br>
> > David<br>
><br>
> Mike<br>
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