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Old 12-02-2010
Flash drive recovering data.
I have a flash drive which contained very important docs. But somebidy accidently dleted those files. I want to recover these files anyhow.
I have listened the Linux have best possible chances of recovering it.
Can anybody tell me how to recover that?
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Old 12-03-2010
It helps a lot to know what kind of files you lost. Now that they are floating unlinked inside the flash drive, that may be the only way to identify them.

the magicrescue command does just this, trawling through every raw sector identifying files (and partial files) based on what kind of file they appear to be. It recovers no folders or file names, just unlabelled files.

If you've written anything to the flash drive after deleting them, the remnants may have been overwritten hence permanently lost.
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