POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Data recovery : Re: Data recovery Server Time
7 Sep 2024 03:22:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Data recovery  
From: Tom Austin
Date: 26 Aug 2008 07:33:56
Message: <48b3ea24$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> Well, well... It appears one of our employees kept "everything" on a USB 
> flash drive. And guess what? Yah, that's right. Now every time she tries 
> to use that drive, it says the drive isn't formatted.
> 

> 
> Dodgy, much?
> 
> Anyway, there are a couple of possibilities here:
> - The drive is fine, and the PC is broken.
> - The drive is OK, but there's a software glitch preventing Windoze from 
> reading it.
> - The drive is physically OK, but some filesystem data got mangled.
> - The drive is actually broken, but most of the data is still readable.
> - The drive is toast, and it's no longer possible to read anything at all.
> 
> If it's one of the first two, my job is pretty trivial. If it's the last 
> one, we're going to have to pay somebody to take the drive apart and 
> examine it. If it's either of the middle two possibilities, I basically 
> need to copy everything off the drive and examine it somehow.
> 

The real question is:

How cute is she?

;-o


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