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Second try. I started with the bad flash drive, found the file system and tried to copy it into the directory I wanted. However, I simply pointed at the directory instead of actually entering it (Like in "Paste into folder" from a file manager.) and got a mess of files until I managed to kill ...

I just tried that, copying everything to a different directory on the same partition. (Using the image.dd.) When I was finished, nothing was there. Weird. I'm going to try to do the same thing again, but this time I'm going to use the actual flash drive as the source because the documentation says ...

A little more information: I ran testdisk again on image.dd, told it that the media didn't have a partition table, and that the file system was FAT32. Now, it was able to find the data, but I've no idea what to do with it. At this point, I'm guessing that I'm eventually going to have to reformat the ...

OK, I re-ran the test with Vista mode enabled. No partition table, even after a Deeper scan:

Thu Aug 22 23:51:12 2013
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Linux, kernel 3.10.7-200.fc19 ...

Here's the log from the first time I ran it. I only thought of trying to copy the data off later:

Thu Aug 22 15:37:28 2013
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Linux, kernel 3.10.7-200 ...

Sorry if I'm posting twice, but the first time I tried to post it didn't show up. I have an 8 GB flash drive with data on it that I took off of my Linux box before reinstalling. Now, all of a sudden, the drive won't mount on any computer. Trying gParted only told me that the drive consisted of ...