A friend of mine gave me a USB key with the following history:
- He has a lot of important data on it
- It used to work fine
- The key stayed on his desk and cannot think of a scenario where it might have been - - - physically damaged
- He has no idea why this happened. Like, zero.
The key does indeed look fine from a physical standpoint. After pluging in, the key's theoretical location in /dev is /dev/sdb, but there is also a /dev/sg1 that pops up. No idea what it is.
I'm backing the key's content with sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=./usbkey-backup.img, it's gonna take a while.
Output of sudo parted -l :
Error: /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label
Model: Intenso Alu Line (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 63.4GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: unknown
Disk Flags:
[...] other volumes [...]
So there's no partition on that key. The original partition must have been either NTFS or FAT32, and I'd bank on ntfs.
What do you recommend I should do to retrieve that data ?
Do I just apply a single FAT32 or NTFS partition on the whole volume ?
Or is there a smarter way to go about it ? Like a tool I don't know about ?
