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EDIT: Sorry for the crappy origional post,I'll try to clear up what is going on. A friend of my family had a bunch of files stored on a flash drive that were not backed up anywhere else(that's changing now of course...). A few days ago, the u3 drive updated and from what I can understand, the update got corrupted part way through.
I searched a bit on google, and this has happened to other people. I tried looking in the appdata/u3/temp folder, but there were no files backed up there. There were, however, a bunch of .chk files in a folder called 'FOUND.000'. This folder is 665 mb, the same size as the amount of space windows explorer shows as being used(but only four unimportant files are shown when browsing the drive). I used photorec and it changed the .chk extensions to .doc,.xls,etc. based on the file header(at least I believe that is how photorec works...).
It looks like these files are ok, but of course the file names are filexxxx which is not much help. There are over 500 word docs, and to sort through and rename them would take forever. So,I am trying to see if I can still recover the files. I am running testdisk, and so far the only thing I have been able to do is analyse the drive. It does give errors about the fat table in the analysis. All I can find are the .chk files with testdisk.
I am trying to see if there is some way I can repair the fat table to gain the old files back,if they are there. I know that many people on this forum know a great deal more than I do about this. I have created an image with testdisk so as not to touch the actual drive and so I can experiment. I get the following warnings with the fat partition:
'Warning incorrect number of heads/cylander 4 !=255'
'Warning incorrect number of sectors per track 32 !=63'
'Warning vad ending cylinder (CHS and LBA don't match). If anyone could help me possibly rebuild the fat table or rescure the fiels if they are there, I would appreciate it.
I searched a bit on google, and this has happened to other people. I tried looking in the appdata/u3/temp folder, but there were no files backed up there. There were, however, a bunch of .chk files in a folder called 'FOUND.000'. This folder is 665 mb, the same size as the amount of space windows explorer shows as being used(but only four unimportant files are shown when browsing the drive). I used photorec and it changed the .chk extensions to .doc,.xls,etc. based on the file header(at least I believe that is how photorec works...).
It looks like these files are ok, but of course the file names are filexxxx which is not much help. There are over 500 word docs, and to sort through and rename them would take forever. So,I am trying to see if I can still recover the files. I am running testdisk, and so far the only thing I have been able to do is analyse the drive. It does give errors about the fat table in the analysis. All I can find are the .chk files with testdisk.
I am trying to see if there is some way I can repair the fat table to gain the old files back,if they are there. I know that many people on this forum know a great deal more than I do about this. I have created an image with testdisk so as not to touch the actual drive and so I can experiment. I get the following warnings with the fat partition:
'Warning incorrect number of heads/cylander 4 !=255'
'Warning incorrect number of sectors per track 32 !=63'
'Warning vad ending cylinder (CHS and LBA don't match). If anyone could help me possibly rebuild the fat table or rescure the fiels if they are there, I would appreciate it.