Have I lost all my data?

[Psumi]

My fat32 USB Flash Drive is giving me this error:


wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1

dmesg | tail says this:


[ 38.052716] FAT: IO charset ANSI_X3.4-1968 not found
[ 38.059915] FAT: IO charset ANSI_X3.4-1968 not found

Searching google says I have to upgrade udev from karmic-proposed, however... udev isn't in karmic-proposed, so I cannot upgrade it!

[markjensen]

If it seems to be unable to mount because of a superblock issue, you might be able to do a fsck/chkdisk(windows) on it.

There are also utilities that can grab your files off while ignoring reported filesystem information. I am thinking the app photorec here.

If your usb stick seems to be unreadable and unfixable, try sudo apt-get install photorec then running it and pointing it to your usb stick and see what it can do.

It is a text based app, just so you are warned. ;)

[Psumi]

Seems Parole Media Player was able to mount it, so... I guess this is solved.

[markjensen]

Hey, one "solved" is as good as any other! :cool: