[ale] Fixing a vfat flash drive?

[James P. Kinney III]

Robert,

Once the drive complains like this, don't try and reuse it. There is a
write limit to the solid state devices and it sounds like yours has hit
the ceiling. 
There are tools that can (sometimes) recover data currently on the
device. Look for "crashed flash drive recovery". This one looks
promising but is winders only:
http://www.safe-install.com/programs/recover-usb-drive-data.html

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 08:29 -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
>   I need to recover a flash drive.  All of a sudden it's complaining that
> the drive is unreadable and an "fsck.vfat" complains both tables are
> corrupt.  Anyone know a util that will rebuild or recover the fat tables?
> Windows is useless.  Aside from the normal reasons it just says the drive
> is 0 of 0 bytes free and the only option is to format or partition it.
> 
> Robert
> 
> :wq!
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