[ale] Has anybody used a flash disk recovery service?

[Andrew Wade]

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 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)

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).

Data is only lost when the write takes place on the blocks you were trying
to recover.

I did it all in an internet cafe in Barcelona.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On 06/05/2012 04:13 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > lfd = remove during write
> Ooooh, snap, crackle, pop!
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com
> <mailto:mhw at wittsend.com>> wrote:
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> > On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 11:13 -0400, david w. millians wrote:
> >
> > > Opinions needed on a flash drive repair service. We have a person who
> > > did the laptop-flash-destruction maneuver.
> >
> > What means "laptop-flash-destruction maneuver"? No cutesy terms, what
> > happened? Did they delete everything on it? Did it start giving them
> > hard errors? Did they run it through a washer and drier? [Actually had
> > that happen with a little pocket drive - the NAND Flash chip fell off
> > the little PCB from the driver heat. Wasn't anything on it I needed to
> > recover, fortunately.] What was the technically correct term for what
> > they did and what they got?
> >
> > > Money is not a HUGE object. I
> > > found:
> > > http://www.recovermyflashdrive.com
> > > and it looks like they could solve the actual issue.
> >
> > I've done recoveries on both rotating magnetic and solid state.
> > Services can vary and results can vary depending on the nature of said
> > "destruction".
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > David
> >
> > Mike
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