My mum needs files off her USB flash drive. My mum needs you!!!

Hi all.
Got an urgent call off my darling mother this morning. She has/had all her important work files stored on a single USB stick (yes, I know..)
The disk has died, and I'm asking if any of you wonderful people have any ideas on how I might be able to retrieve any/all data off it.
The disk is found in lsusb as:
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 058f:1234 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Drive
is listed as /dev/sdb however "dd if=/dev/sdb of=mumscrappystick.img" gives us:
dd: failed to open ‘/dev/sdb’: No medium found
Any bright ideas much appreciated, Windows or Linux tools, beers given to the winning idea!! Urgent response required.
(Have also tried testdisk which doesn't find said drive)
Last edited by Hutchism (2013-11-09 16:24:15)

Thanks ewaller and shulamy. I'm pretty careful with dd and touch wood haven't done anything silly with it 'yet', I did however manage to rm my entire /etc/ directory after a few beers round at a friends house recently (don't ask)!
Have had a lot of luck with testdisk in the past. Was going to make an image of it and run testdisk on that, but as I couldn't get an image of it via dd this wasn't possible. Also testdisk did not detect the stick on startup.
There's a windows utility called 'urescue' which has had success on some usb sticks for some people.
A page I found which discusses reflashing the controller chip on the USB stick is: http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/repa … lash-drive
The above link uses many manufacturer utilities, which only run on Windows XP, so sorry if this offends people. Sometimes you need to dance with the devil for this kind of thing A small Windows XP partition can sometimes be a bit of a lifesaver...
Last edited by Hutchism (2013-11-12 08:48:01)

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