Corrupted USB stick data recovery

[Richard Langner]

A 32GB USB stick got corrupted, and Win10 asks if I want to format it.
Some recovery programs will recognise the drive and attempt to recover
files, but the free ones I found were very limited to number of files.

Any suggestions for free software to recover the data?

[Adam Funk]

I'd try plugging it into a Linux machine and running fsck on it. You
might have to install the dosfstools package to get the fsck.vfat version.

[James Muirhead]

I also suggest running fsck before recovery.

You could also try chkdsk on Windows. E.g....

    chkdsk g: /x

/x is unmount and fix.

Add /r for recover data in bad sectors!

Change g: to relevent drive letter.

Recuva has a free version which has no file limit.

    https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

-OJ.

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[James Muirhead]

For reference...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/chkdsk

-OJ.

[James KW Moore]

I usually recommend running Photorec and Testdisk (under linux on a separate disk) for these kinds of recoveries.

Thanks,

James.

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[James Muirhead]

Oooh yeh, forgot about those.

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[Richard Langner]

I tried chkdsk and the drive showed up as RAW, which chkdsk cannot handle.
I read somewhere when the stick corrupts it may show up as RAW..
Thanks all, I will try what James suggested next.

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On 24/02/2022 12:52, James Muirhead wrote:

Oooh yeh, forgot about those.

On 2022-02-24 09:55, James KW Moore wrote:

I usually recommend running Photorec and Testdisk (under linux on a separate disk) for these kinds of recoveries.

Thanks,

James.

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