How to recover files, directories?

[shoutcrown]

Hello guys!

This happened today on Slacko Puppy Linux:

My USB flash drive (Hp 16gb) was connected to the laptop, (I was editing some files, I mean they were opened). Suddenly this Hp 16gb was disconnected automatically (I didn't move or touch it). The icon disappeared from desktop (sdb1) and appeared again like sdc1.

Now there are a couple of directories which can't be opened (but I wasn't editing those files and directories). It appears an exclamation icon ("!"). The properties show "Error: Input/output error" and the "Permissions" aren't checked and can't be changed.

I rebooted this laptop many times, but there is the same problem

PLEASE! Can anybody tell me how to recover those directories? (the files within those directories are very important for me and I don't have any other backup). As I told the rest of directories and files are ok, the issue is only with a couple of directories

By the way there is an excellent program called "HP Disk Low Level Format Tool" which can fix damaged USB Flash drives. Is there a similar program for Slacko Puppy Linux?

Thanks a lot! bye

[bigpup]

You can try this:
TestDisk & PhotoRec
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=28453
The Package contains BOTH apps, although named only testdisk.

Read carefully what each program does.

[postfs1]

How to recover files, directories?

There is no information about the file system in your message.

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1)"Testdisk" can help sometimes. This program can show what user may to restore.

2)http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 396#609396

3)Programs for use in Microsoft Windows mostly:

Ancysoft Data Recovery Software 1.0 ---> http://ancysoft-data-recovery-software.soft32.com/
An information about web-page: © 2003 - 2012 ITNT. All rights reserved.

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FreeUndelete ---> http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/
An information about web-page: Copyright © 1998-2012 Recoveronix Ltd.

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Glary Undelete 1.3 ---> http://www.onlyfreewares.com/Utilities/ ... delete.php
An information about web-page: Copyrights 2011 by OnlyFreewares.com

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R-Linux(free) ---> http://www.r-tt.com/free_linux_recovery/Download.shtml
An information about web-page: © Copyright 2000-2012 R-Tools Technology Inc.

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R-Linux(not free) ---> http://www.r-tt.com/data_recovery_linux/Download.shtml
An information about web-page: © Copyright 2000-2012 R-Tools Technology Inc.

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R-Linux-4.5(i don't know is it really free or not) ---> http://www.canadiancontent.net/tech/dow ... overy.html
An information about web-page: Canadian Content Interactive Media © 2012. All rights reserved.

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R-Linux-3.0(i don't know is it really free or not) ---> http://www.geardownload.com/system/r-li ... nload.html
An information about web-page: Copyright © 2012 GearDownload.com.

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SoftPerfect File Recovery ---> http://www.softperfect.com/products/filerecovery/
An information about web-page: © 2000–2012 SoftPerfect Research

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Undelete_Plus-2.92 ---> http://www.hiren.info/downloads/freeware-tools/page/8
An information about web-page: © 2012 www.hiren.info. All Rights Reserved.

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[shoutcrown]

hello!

bigpup:
You can try this:
TestDisk & PhotoRec

PhotoRec is recommended to recover files. After all It can't recover the files I lost but It's true It can recover everything else (It takes about 5 hours). What a curious!

postfs1:
There is no information about the file system in your message

I formatted this USB Flash Drive on Windows XP a long time ago. That is the filesystem is FAT32. I think all of the flash drives have this filesystem.

I would prefer to get a program for puppy linux (no windows)

This is a big disgrace!!! I never thought to lose those important files on Puppy Linux

[postfs1]

How to recover files, directories?

4)sleuthkit

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sleuthk ... sleuthkit/
An information about web-page: © 2012 Geeknet, Inc.

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http://wiki.sleuthkit.org/index.php?tit ... sis#Search
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For "Linux Quirky - 1.40" ---> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/ ... 6.rpm.html

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http://www.xakep.ru/magazine/xa/131/072/1.asp <--- russian language

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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery
An information about web-page: The material on this wiki is available under a free license, see Copyright / License for details

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[postfs1]

5)DMDE

http://softdm.com/download.html
An information about web-page: (C) 2008-2012 Dmitry Sidorov
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6)fsck.vfat

http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/ ... 00002.html

http://dftt.sourceforge.net/test6/index.html
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7)mundelete

For "Linux Quirky - 1.40" ---> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/ ... 6.rpm.html

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8)scalpel

For "Linux Quirky - 1.40" ---> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/ ... 6.rpm.html

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http://habrahabr.ru/post/55465/
© 2006–2012 «Тематиче

[shoutcrown]

hi everybody!

some say photorec is to recover files and testdisk to recover partitions...

so first i used photorec, but i couldn recover the files i wanted... (besides the recovered files were stored without the original order)

finally i had to use testdisk, and I succeed!!! (there were some confusions to use it, but now I have every file I lost). it is amazing because the recovered files have the original order

thanks a lot for help me!