Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Off topic, but would appreciate an assist: A colleague just returned from Africa with a bunch of files on her flash drive. Or so she thought. She plugged it into her computer. Nothing there. The drive shows up, but it appears to have zero total space, zero bytes free, zero files. I've looked at the flash drive on several computers. Same story. In My Computer/Explorer, it acts like a Zip drive with no disk inserted. It shows up as a drive letter E:. If you double click on it, Windows prompts you to insert a disk. This worries me. It's not that the drive has been erased, so we see empty memory. It's like there's no memory at all. Almost like the memory is physically damaged. In her email, she mentioned that she had some difficulty copying files to the drive in Africa, so it could be that she's corrupted the structure to the point that Windows sees nothing. I don't have any more information yet--I didn't see her, as she's still on Africa time and went home early. The problem device is a Sandisk "Cruzer" mini 2 gig USB 2.0 flash drive. Any suggestions on a file recovery utility that has the best chance of recovering anything would be appreciated. Sandisk has their own utility, and I recall Tina mentioning a couple a while back, Photo Rescue and Restorer 2000, I think. Are these still my best bet, or have others gotten better? Thanks! --Peter