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Originally Posted by linus72
and fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000dde2d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 60060 482431918+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 60061 60801 5952082+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 60061 60801 5952051 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 4009 MB, 4009754624 bytes
51 heads, 51 sectors/track, 3010 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2601 * 512 = 1331712 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x04030201
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 3011 3915204 b W95 FAT32
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also, as root above, try coping a file(any text file) from ubuntu hd/desktop to usb
with
"cp -a /home/username/Desktop/filename /mount/point/of/usb"
IF you are able to copy a file there then you need to change your permissions
if there is a problem copying then maybe the usb is corrupted format or something
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cp: failed to preserve ownership for 'filename.txt': Operation not permitted
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DID you format the usb or is it factory formatted?
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Factory formatted. Never touched my thumb drive in a serious way.
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the best way to do it maybe to use partedmagic, which has clonezilla to clone the usb image to somewhere where you can safely hack at it with testdisk etc and preserve the original so when you get it down on how to fix it you run the real one.
theres also dd rescue too
which should provide info thru terminal with "dd rescue -info" or "info dd rescue"
it's probably available in synaptic pkg manager
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If somebody could write very easy instructions for partedmagic, clonezilla, ddrescue, TestDisk for beginners, it would be very good.
What I find very awkward about ddrescue is that there are tons of instructions about ddrescue for recovering hard disk drives, but never about recovering thumb drives that makes beginner Linux users very crazy. As the way how instructions are worded out for almost all of the data recovery softwares, it is too limited for average people to understand. Too abstract, not enough background information.
I'm sorry that I talk like a self-designated idiot, but what can I say?