[ale] semi [OT] help recovering data from memory card

[David Tomaschik]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Boris Borisov <bugy at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I'm going to follow this post carefully  because I have to deal with the same problem :) missing partition information. Actually dmesg gives me message : sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
>  sda: unknown partition table
> What I am doing now is dd if=/dev/sda of=usb8gb.img just in case. Will take a while with this USB.1.1 that I plugged into it :)

Good point that I'm surprised hadn't come up first: you do not do
recovery on the "real" device.  You image the real device as best as
possible, and recover from there.

David

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