[Gllug] OT: Recover deleted from USB Pen drive

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Fri Jul 16 17:00:31 UTC 2004


On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 05:51:44PM +0100, James wrote:
> Hi, not exactly a linux question but I'm in a spot of bother.  Can you 
> recover deleted files from a standard USB pen drive?  I'm using it on 
> Windows XP, but I can move to linux if needed.   I haven't put much info 
> on the drive since deleting the _incredibly important file_, so it's 
> probably still there.

USB pen drives normally have a FAT filesystem, which would imply that
the file may be recoverable by any tool that can undelete from DOS
partitions.


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Bruce

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