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On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:16:41 +0100 Edwin Rhodes wrote: > Hello a friend of mine has lost data on a usb stick, formatted for > use with windows, do you know of a FREE or GNU utility I can use to > recover the data? Please advise, > Thanks ed Depending on the severity of the data loss, you could try any one of the following: testdisk - Scan and repair disk partitions photorec - Recover lost pictures from digital camera foremost - Recover files using their headers and footers scalpel - very similar to foremost autopsy - Web-page based graphical tool for data extraction magicrescue - Scans a block device and extracts known file types by looking at magic bytes Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq