Rescuing a Damaged USB Stick

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 08:07:41AM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 02:13:21AM -0500, William Park wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:17:04AM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> >> I've got an nice clean image of a USB stick on my hard drive.  I'm
> >> pretty sure there is still data on it - stings returns *oodles* of
> >> stuff.  The problem is that there is no partition table on this thing -
> >> gpart says that there are no partitions.
> >> 
> >> So, I can't mount the image (or the stick) 'cause there are no
> >> partitions.  I'm pretty sure it was a FAT32 stick, so I'd love to
> >> somehow replace the partition table on the image I've got and see if I
> >> can pull off some of that data.
> >> 
> >> Anyone have a set of documents for this?  I've found lots of
> >> almost-useful information, including some really old docs, but nothing
> >> that says "do this!" for my situation.
> >> 
> >> Thanks!
> >
> >Odd that it doesn't have partition table.  Windows always creates the
> >first partition.  Unless it was created from Linux to use the whole
> >device.  In any case, you can take a peek into the image:
> >
> >    # losetup usb.img
> >	-- check /proc/partition to see that "loop0" is created
> 
> Here's where it breaks down, like this:
> 
> loop: can't get info on device usb.img: Inappropriate ioctl for
> device
> 
> Am I hosed?

losetup /dev/loop0 usb.img

or

losetup -f usb.img

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