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Linux Journal: How a Corrupted USB Drive Was Saved by GNU/Linux

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“My friend’s brother had a 512MB Lexar Media Jumpdrive Pro USB
drive that became corrupted after using it with Windows 2000. His
IT department was able to get back some but not all of the file
contents, but without any file names. On his own, he tried some
recovery utilities, but all failed. Using a typical Linux
distro–in this case SuSE 8.0–however, it wasn’t hard to recover
almost all of the data from the drive along with the filenames and
to burn a CD-ROM of the contents…”

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