Well... she decided to take it elsewhere first, but they failed to fix 
it. So now the drive has come to me. (For anybody who missed it, YES, 
this is a USB flash drive, NOT a USB HD.)

I booted up KNOPPIX and plugged the drive in. It's reported as 64 MB. (I 
don't know if that's actually correct.) I was able to copy the entire 
contents using dd.

I just had a look at a hex dump of the file. The first few million 
octets are 0xFF. Then there's a block of 0x00. And then there's a block 
of seemingly random bytes which may be actual data.

I'm not an expert in such matters, but I was under the impression that 
the very first few octets is supposed to be a partition table. So it 
looks like that block has somehow got fried, which is why nothing is 
working now. It also looks like at least some usable data might still be 
there.

The oddessy will continue...

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