Raw Flash Drive - Testdisk Says No Partitions

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lewy
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Raw Flash Drive - Testdisk Says No Partitions

#1 Post by lewy »

Hi,
My 2 year old son pulled out a cruzer edge while it was connected to windows. It is now showing up as a raw drive. I tried Testdisk (using Hiren's Boot CD), but it shows no partitions on the drive. Photorec cannot find any files and the same for other data recovery programs. Is there anything that can be done to get back all the data.
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Re: Raw Flash Drive - Testdisk Says No Partitions

#2 Post by cgrenier »

Can you post a copy of testdisk.log file content ?

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Re: Raw Flash Drive - Testdisk Says No Partitions

#3 Post by lewy »

Here is the log

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Tue Apr  8 09:17:34 2014
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, September 2012
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows XP
Compiler: GCC 4.6, Cygwin 1007.9
Compilation date: 2012-10-14T21:06:28
ext2fs lib: 1.42.2, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: 0.3.1-rc8, ewf lib: 20120504
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sda)=250059350016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdb)=8004304896
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(/dev/sdc)=4022337024
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive0)=250059350016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive1)=8004304896
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive2)=4022337024
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\C:)=236279361024
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\D:)=8003256320
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\E:)=13777344000
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\F:)=4700372992
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\X:)=3162112
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 250 GB / 232 GiB - CHS 30401 255 63, sector size=512 - FUJITSU MHZ2250BH G2, S/N:6K718T24Y81E, FW:8909
Disk /dev/sdb - 8004 MB / 7633 MiB - CHS 973 255 63, sector size=512 - SanDisk Cruzer Facet, FW:1.26
Disk /dev/sdc - 4022 MB / 3835 MiB - CHS 489 255 63, sector size=512 - SanDisk Cruzer Edge, FW:8.02
Drive F: - 4700 MB / 4482 MiB - CHS 1120 64 32, sector size=2048 - TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L632N, FW:0503
Drive X: - 3162 KB / 3088 KiB - CHS 193 1 32, sector size=512 - Microsoft Corporation RamDisk

Partition table type default to Intel
Disk /dev/sdc - 4022 MB / 3835 MiB - SanDisk Cruzer Edge
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Disk /dev/sdc - 4022 MB / 3835 MiB - CHS 489 255 63
Current partition structure:
No partition is bootable

search_part()
Disk /dev/sdc - 4022 MB / 3835 MiB - CHS 489 255 63
file_pread(6,2,buffer,7856128(489/5/29)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,1,buffer,7856128(489/5/29)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,2,buffer,7857833(489/32/33)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,1,buffer,7857833(489/32/33)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,2,buffer,7857896(489/33/33)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,1,buffer,7857896(489/33/33)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,15,buffer,7856129(489/5/30)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,3,buffer,7856144(489/5/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,3,buffer,7856191(489/6/29)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,8,buffer,7856207(489/6/45)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,11,buffer,7856254(489/7/29)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,2,buffer,7858176(489/37/61)) lseek err Invalid argument

Results

interface_write()
 
No partition found or selected for recovery

search_part()
Disk /dev/sdc - 4022 MB / 3835 MiB - CHS 489 255 63
file_pread(6,2,buffer,7856128(489/5/29)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,1,buffer,7856128(489/5/29)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,2,buffer,7857833(489/32/33)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,1,buffer,7857833(489/32/33)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,2,buffer,7857896(489/33/33)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,1,buffer,7857896(489/33/33)) lseek err Invalid argument
file_pread(6,1,buffer,7856127(489/5/28)) ReadFile The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.


Results

interface_write()
 
No partition found or selected for recovery
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Re: Raw Flash Drive - Testdisk Says No Partitions

#4 Post by lewy »

Bump. Please help the log is in the previous post. and my USB is 4GB as stated in log. Photorec also didn't find anything.
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Re: Raw Flash Drive - Testdisk Says No Partitions

#5 Post by cgrenier »

There is no FAT or exFAT boot sector, nor backup boot sector. It's very strange that PhotoRec has found no file.
Run TestDisk, Advanced, Image Creation, zip the image.dd file, if you get a very small zip, the content has probably been wiped when the key has been removed.

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