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Thanks! I've been using dd_rescue from Fedora 16 repo:

dd_rescue Version 1.23, garloff@suse.de, GNU GPL
($Id: dd_rescue.c,v 1.112 2010/10/11 09:50:32 garloff Exp $)
(compiled Feb 8 2011 13:39:06 by gcc (GCC) 4.6.0 20110205 (Red Hat 4.6.0-0.6))

It uses a log file but seemed to ignore it (ie just ...

Tried using testdisk. Copy all files got about 18GB then repeated consecutive errors for all FAT clusters.
When Copy files finished, /dev had disappeared and testdisk became unable to see the partition at all.

So I suspect testdisk, like dd_rescue can only return pointless errors once the kernel ...

Q1 I am assuming that testdisk can and should be used on a file image produced using dd_rescue.

Partition table is ok, many files on vfat file system visible and copyable so I am assuming testdisk won't help.

Q2 Any solutions (with or without testdisk) for the following symptoms?

Fedora 16 Linux ...