Hi,
I hope I'm on the right place to expose my problem.
I know that with a USB stick you have to deactivate it in Windows first or shutting down before unplugging it in order to be safe not to lose or corrupt data on it, like you'd do with any external data storage device, but unfortunately I wasn't careful and unplugged it 'on the fly'.
Now it's write-protected and the file system is damaged, resulting in some files where Windows says "do not exist" or "damaged" when I try to copy them.
The good news is that I can copy out most of the files, but some critical files of my Thunderbird Profile (mail) are concerned and it would be good if I could restore them by copying them out and treat them with a special tool to repair them (like the CHKDSK/f of Windows).
My question is:
As I have an advanced HEX editor also capable of accessing and editing directly the boot sector of drives, I wonder if I could use it, or use a boot sector manipulation program (like Bootice) to repair my USB stick. Also, would any data recovery program help in such a case? Those are generally designed to recover deleted files, but maybe they are also useful in such a case?
Thanks,
XenonS
I hope I'm on the right place to expose my problem.
I know that with a USB stick you have to deactivate it in Windows first or shutting down before unplugging it in order to be safe not to lose or corrupt data on it, like you'd do with any external data storage device, but unfortunately I wasn't careful and unplugged it 'on the fly'.
Now it's write-protected and the file system is damaged, resulting in some files where Windows says "do not exist" or "damaged" when I try to copy them.
The good news is that I can copy out most of the files, but some critical files of my Thunderbird Profile (mail) are concerned and it would be good if I could restore them by copying them out and treat them with a special tool to repair them (like the CHKDSK/f of Windows).
My question is:
As I have an advanced HEX editor also capable of accessing and editing directly the boot sector of drives, I wonder if I could use it, or use a boot sector manipulation program (like Bootice) to repair my USB stick. Also, would any data recovery program help in such a case? Those are generally designed to recover deleted files, but maybe they are also useful in such a case?
Thanks,
XenonS
USB STick - damaged file system
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