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Barkin
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Recuva 0 , Testdisk 1

#1 Post by Barkin »

I managed to corrupt the SD card which I forgot was in my laptop. It couldn't be read by Windows or Linux Puppy.

The Windows-only program Recuva wouldn't help, but testdisk running on Puppy saved the day ...
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No your eyesight hasn't gone wonky, I've obfuscated the file names
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#2 Post by amigo »

Hey, I wanted to read the file list...

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#3 Post by starhawk »

Hey, that's really helpful!

Been thinking about giving a kid I know (he turned 9 recently -- already has an iPad and a Kindle Fire, and knows more than his parents about both!) a copy of Puppy, and a system to use it on.

This will help him immensely, I think -- he's the sort who will read "DON'T UNPLUG YOUR FLASH DRIVE WITHOUT UNMOUNTING IT FIRST" and say hmm, I wonder why, what does that do -- and then go and find out on his own! Oops...

So this is the answer to that quandary.

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#4 Post by Barkin »

starhawk wrote:Been thinking about giving a kid I know (he turned 9 recently -- already has an iPad and a Kindle Fire, and knows more than his parents about both!) a copy of Puppy, and a system to use it on.
Make sure you sanitize (overwrite) any old memory devices you give the kid, as testdisk can recover "deleted" files :¬0, below successfully recovering deleted bookmarks from almost a year ago from a memory stick I use almost daily, ( I'm surprised they hadn't been overwritten ).
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"deleted" bookmarks from Feb 2012 successfully recovered using testdisk
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#5 Post by starhawk »

Of course!

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#6 Post by gcmartin »

Barkin
Would you share exactly how you used Testdisk to do this? It would be useful.

As I understand you were successful in 2 distinct different functions with Testdisk. How did you go about them?

Thanks in advance.

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#7 Post by Barkin »

gcmartin wrote:Would you share exactly how you used Testdisk to do this? It would be useful.

As I understand you were successful in 2 distinct different functions with Testdisk. How did you go about them?
I just downloaded and installed the testdisk .pet into Lupu 525 and ran the command-line version by putting the word "testdisk" into a console,
[ the program also appears in the Utilities menu as "photorec" (photo-recovery, it's not limited to photo files though)].
After you put the word "testdisk" into a console you just follow the the instructions which appear, selecting choices from a series of menus, (see animation below).

The 2 instances shown above were #1 an SD card which had become unreadable in either windows or Puppy linux (which was my fault),
#2 was a normally functioning a USB memory stick just to demonstrate year-old "deleted" data was still recoverable.

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/testdisk
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