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[CBBB]

Anyone know of someone in Cyprus who does this?

[Raymanoff]

Dont format it even tho it tells you so.

get PHOENIX recovery software and do a physical sector by sector recovery...

[Get Real!]

It all depends on what kind of damage. The most likely problem that happens to USB sticks/drives is that the user pulls them out before Windows flushes the buffer so you end up with partially written files and sometimes a damaged boot sector and/or partition. Of course, it may be physical damage by dropping the USB stick in the loo or something in which case there is no cure!

Anyway, the best tools for the job are:

Smart Partition Recovery
http://www.smartpctools.com/partition_r ... ndex1.html

VirtualLab Data Recovery…
http://www.binarybiz.com/vlab/windows.html

NB: The versions available for free above are DEMO only so they’ll both show you a directory tree of all that’s recoverable but will go no further. It takes between one and three hours for the average HD for the process to complete with the first program being a bit faster.

[kurupetos]

What is this "safely remove hardware" shite? Is it optional?

[Get Real!]

Dont format it even tho it tells you so.

get PHOENIX recovery software and do a physical sector by sector recovery...

If you've got an activation key I'd like to try your suggestion thanks...

[Sotos]

And make sure you don't save anything more on it or you could overwrite the data and make it impossible to recover.

[CBBB]

Cheers all, my mate who has the problem tried the above, but didn't get anywhere.

The couple who's wedding he took over 400 pictures of are a bit pissed off!!!

[Get Real!]

Cheers all, my mate who has the problem tried the above, but didn't get anywhere.

The couple who's wedding he took over 400 pictures of are a bit pissed off!!!

If he has tried the two demo programs I posted, and they came up with nothing then he might as well go hang himself...