Thibaut Jonckheere wrote:
> Are there simple things to try to have access to the data of a corrupted 
> USB stick ? It was working fine until now; now it appears empty when 
> plugged in (both on Windows and Linux). I can use both Windows and Linux 
> (though I guess free tools for this should be easier to find on Linux).
> 
> Thanks for any hints.

I had to do the exact same thing a few months ago.

Try this:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

I used dd to take a low-level copy of everything on the USB stick. I 
discovered that the first few KB had been filled with zeros, but after 
that there was still data. TestDisk was able to recover some of this 
data. Your USB stick may have failed in a different way; good luck!

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