Hi-
I have got this usb drive that has exhibited the following behavior a few times:
Format drive (different fs types, sometimes 1 sometimes more partitions)
use drive 3-5 times with no issues
Drive appears unformatted and is useless.
Can't run recovery software.
Plugging in the device results in nothing but a stub:
There's an entry in the dev folder, /dev/sdb
and lsusb shows the device.
That's it.
Gparted doesn't detect the device at all.
Disk Utility shows the device as an unformatted "memory bar"
dd, ddrescue and the like say "no medium found"
Now, I am stupid for having used the device more than twice. Twice of the same sort of error and no solution should have made me move on to a different device.
Currently there are (were) couple of large files on the drive. I'd like to be able to try and recover them.
But with no partitions showing up and only disk utility with it's basic "reformat it" tool available do I have any possibility of bringing those files back?
Thanks,
wigout
INFO:
I'm running 11.10 64bit, usb drive is 8gb vfat.
dd if=/dev/sdb of=sdb.test
dd: opening `/dev/sdb': No medium found
ddrescue /dev/sdb test
ddrescue: Can't open input file: No medium found
sudo mount /dev/sdb mountpoint
mount: no medium found on /dev/sdb
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0408:2fb1 Quanta Computer, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 010: ID 090c:1000 Feiya Technology Corp. Flash Drive
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 8086:0189 Intel Corp.
dmesg
[80217.424224] usb 2-1.2: new high speed USB device number 11 using ehci_hcd
[80218.144915] scsi16 : usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0
[80220.035727] scsi 16:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB MEMORY BAR 1000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[80220.035976] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[80220.036297] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[80220.043423] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[80220.049077] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[80220.055408] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[80220.055727] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[80220.059436] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[80220.059760] scsi: killing requests for dead queue
[80220.063759] sd 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[80220.063769] sd 16:0:0:0: Embedded Enclosure Device
[80220.065382] sd 16:0:0:0: Failed to get diagnostic page 0x8000002
[80220.065395] sd 16:0:0:0: Failed to bind enclosure -19
[80220.071077] sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sudo gparted /dev/sdb
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libparted : 2.3
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Error opening /dev/sdb: No medium found
hdparm /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Bad address
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 1024/0/62, sectors = 0, start = 0
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