[Gllug] Rescuing a memory stick

Tethys sta296 at astradyne.co.uk
Sat Jul 22 16:38:31 UTC 2006


Richard Jones writes:

>'dd' doesn't work - it just fails on the faulty sector and thinks the
>device is 512 bytes long.

Use the skip parameter to dd to start reading beyond the faulty sector.
That should at least get you the bulk of the data off to memory stick
and onto somewhere that you can play around with it sensibly.

Tet
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