'***** charles' wrote, in part:
| I also have a
| backup plan in that I know of a company that does
| data recovery at the hardware level. It has a 100 clean
| room and it is in north Dallas, about 75 miles north east
| of me. The problem is that they want from $250 to
| $950 to get the data back.
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A clean room is necessary to take apart a hard drive and swap the platters
into a new mechanism. Not something that is needed for a flash card. You
would have to ask specifically about a flash card to get correct
information.
Phil Weldon
| Thanks for the response. I did search the Internet for a
| recovery program and found a couple. The way they
| work is that the demo version can determine if the files
| are "seeable" and if they are then to actually save the
| files you have to purchase the program. I also have a
| backup plan in that I know of a company that does
| data recovery at the hardware level. It has a 100 clean
| room and it is in north Dallas, about 75 miles north east
| of me. The problem is that they want from $250 to
| $950 to get the data back. No charge if the data is
| unrecoverable. I am hoping that it is not physical
| damage to the device and something I can get around.
| The files I could reproduce but it would be a big pain
| in the neck.
|
| later,
| charles.....
|
| > | > '***** charles' wrote, in part:
| > | I have been using the usb stick to do backups and
| > | data storage for several years. All of a sudden
| > | when I plug the usb stick in it says "do you want
| > | to format it?" If I do that, I will loose a lot of stuff
| > | I need to save. I have tried other computers and
| > | I get the same response. Are there any software
| > | tools out there that can help me get my data off
| > | by usb stick that get around the auto mounting
| > | process and access the data directly?
| > _____
| >
| > Have you considered that you have already lost the information? The
| > standard format for flash memory removable storage is FAT. If several
| > systems give you the same message, then your card is faulty; either
| through
| > corruption of the format or a hardware error. 'Auto mounting' has
nothing
| > to do with the problem. You can turn off 'auto mount', but it will not
| make
| > a difference in the problem you describe. I have a program from Lexar
| that
| > will recover erased images, but ONLY images. If a card is reformatted,
| > information can be recovered with this program, but not in an
immediately
| > usable form (just what a recovery program for a hard drive would
produce.)
| >
| > My guess is that at best you have a chance, with a lot of work, at
| > recovering some of the information on your flash card; at worst, the
card
| > itself is now faulty. Depending on how valuable the information is and
| how
| > much you can not recreate, you may want to search the Internet for
| recovery
| > programs. Also contact the manufacture of the flash card; they may
offer
| a
| > recovery program.
| >
| > Good luck.
| >
| > Phil Weldon
| >
| > | > | Hi all,
| > |
| > | I have the following:
| > |
| > | Dell laptop Latitude D600 with 2 usb ports
| > | Lexar 128M usb stick
| > | XP Pro
| > |
| > | I have been using the usb stick to do backups and
| > | data storage for several years. All of a sudden
| > | when I plug the usb stick in it says "do you want
| > | to format it?" If I do that, I will loose a lot of stuff
| > | I need to save. I have tried other computers and
| > | I get the same response. Are there any software
| > | tools out there that can help me get my data off
| > | by usb stick that get around the auto mounting
| > | process and access the data directly?
| > |
| > | thanks,
| > | charles......
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
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