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by mboe
11 Aug 2016, 05:17
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: USB drive has wrong size - recovered files are corrupt
Replies: 2
Views: 1978

Re: USB drive has wrong size - recovered files are corrupt

Thanks for the reply. I guess i forgot to mention that the files were accidentally deleted from this usb as well. I can recovery the files using TestDisk or PhotoRec and all looks good until I try to open them. Windows reports the files are corrupt. I think this is due to the fact the the USB drive ...
by mboe
10 Aug 2016, 05:12
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: USB drive has wrong size - recovered files are corrupt
Replies: 2
Views: 1978

USB drive has wrong size - recovered files are corrupt

I had an old 256Mb (yes megabyte!) USB drive that I recovered some files from. I then transferred them to a 2Gb USB drive. The next time I plugged this drive into my pc it showed up as a 128Mb drive! Using test disk I can see and recover the files but then when I try to access them Windows reports ...