[GRLUG] Flash Disk Recovery

[Casey DuBois]

Regarding these LOST drives...
You can purchase drives with encryption software loaded so that these LOST drives cannot be accessed by the wrong person. There are also fingerprint drives that do the same thing. I have a Lexar unit that seems to work good.

These 2 options would just help ensure NO data gets in the wrong hands.

Casey


-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Popa [mailto:tehpopa at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:10 PM
To: grlug at grlug.org
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Flash Disk Recovery

All great suggestions, but they are doctors, so they get their way.
Infrequent downloading because they're too busy most of the time. We also
had originally set up a 'never to leave the office with this device' policy,
but now we're replacing about 1 a month due to lost items(lost at home, in
another state, on a plane, in the lake). That's why I'm more in the mood of
finding some decent recovery software than changing how they handle them.
It's just impossible. Anyway, I found Runtime Software's "GetDataBack for
FAT" that runs on Windows. It's recovered them and seems to be working fine.

On Nov 29, 2007 11:52 AM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd suggest increasing the frequency of cradle visits.  When the
> > machines corrupt the drives, is the most-recently-recorded data also
> > corrupt, or just the other data that hasn't seen a cradle yet?
> >
> > I seem to recall that the FAT filesystems have a backup table, too.
> > But it's been ages since I fiddled with fsck.vfat
>
>
>
> I would suggest reformatting the cards more frequently. I have had similar
> problems with card corruption in a digital camera and frequent reformatting
> seems to have fixed that problem. Considering the medical nature of the data
> being stored, pull each card aside once a week and format it to be safe. You
> might also consider tracking corruption for each card so you can tell if
> it's one or two cards that are the problem, or the whole batch.
>
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