dos/standalone data recovery software that can access usb flash?

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4 total messages Started by poster Mon, 04 May 2009 18:34

#451

Author: poster
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 18:34

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fat hdd with bad mbr needs to backed up to flash but most of Hirens
recovery tools do not see flash at all, so any ideas wellcome.Booting
with Dr Dos boot cd enables usb flash access but is that  going to
help the aforementioned apps, or app has to be  written-programmed to
support usb drive?

Re: dos/standalone data recovery software that can access usb flash?

#452

Author: Rôgêr
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 20:02

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poster wrote:
> fat hdd with bad mbr needs to backed up to flash but most of Hirens
> recovery tools do not see flash at all, so any ideas wellcome.Booting
> with Dr Dos boot cd enables usb flash access but is that  going to
> help the aforementioned apps, or app has to be  written-programmed to
> support usb drive?

Couldn't you use XCOPY with DR DOS?
http://www.computerhope.com/xcopyhlp.htm
http://drdosprojects.de/

Re: dos/standalone data recovery software that can access usb flash?

#453

Author: Harry
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 20:05

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On May 4, 11:34 am, poster <anglom...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> fat hdd with bad mbr needs to backed up to flash but most of Hirens
> recovery tools do not see flash at all, so any ideas wellcome.Booting
> with Dr Dos boot cd enables usb flash access but is that  going to
> help the aforementioned apps, or app has to be  written-programmed to
> support usb drive?

UBCD4Win can see USB storage devices.
There are some free disk cloning utils in UBCD4Win.
Alternatively, you can build UBCD4Win with some commercial cloning
utils, such as Ghost, Acronis True Images, etc (provided that you have
those software and then finding corresponding plugins from the web).

Just google UBCD4Win.

Re: dos/standalone data recovery software that can access usb flash?

#454

Author: Arno
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 20:15

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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage poster <anglomont@yahoo.com> wrote:
> fat hdd with bad mbr needs to backed up to flash but most of Hirens
> recovery tools do not see flash at all, so any ideas wellcome.Booting
> with Dr Dos boot cd enables usb flash access but is that  going to
> help the aforementioned apps, or app has to be  written-programmed to
> support usb drive?


Get a Knoppix CD and do it with Linux.

Opan a terminal and do a "sudo su" to become root.

Basic commands:

  List all drives/partitions:
   fdisk -l

  Copy partition to file 
   dd_rescue <source partition> <target file>

  Instructions for dd_rescue
   man dd_rescue

Be careful not to give your HDD as target, or it will be overwritten. 

Arno

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