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Pen Drive data recovery

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  • 02-06-2014 9:21pm
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    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,398 ✭✭✭


    Anyone know of a good free Pen Drive data recovery software for a pen drive that's no longer being detected? A lot of stuff out there seems to be trial only.

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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    harney
    Registered Users Posts: 1,215 ✭✭✭harney


    I've used this before, although the caveats are it was on external drives (not pen drives) and through Linux.

    It is fairly straightforward, just make sure to recover to another drive

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec

    *edit*
    It appears to work with windows, up to windows 7 and should recover pen drives.


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    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,398 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    Appreciate the reply harney, I was hoping that I could get something with a GUI as it's for a third party overseas and I just know he'll baulk using the terminal window.

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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    Lundar.
    Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭Lundar.


    Hi Gadgetman,

    I have used Recuva in the past to get files back from a SD card and usb keys. This sound like what your looking for.


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    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,398 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    Well that just shows you where my head is at Lundar :D I soooo knew about this Prog and totally forgot about it. Talk about missing the obvious?

    Thank you for the reminder :)

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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    riclad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    http://www.pcinspector.de/Default.htm?language=1

    I find recuva easier to use for recovering data from sdcards,
    never tried it on a usb drive, pendrive.


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    nitros7
    Registered Users Posts: 319 ✭✭nitros7


    http://www.pandorarecovery.com/

    Bees knees IMO


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