[GRLUG] Flash Disk Recovery

[Casey DuBois]

Recovery options:

1- Magic Recovery Pro (www.software-recovery.com)
2- Recover My Files (www.recovermyfiles.com)

Suggestions for preventing lost files:

1- Change the drive - try some different (more expensive) USB drives.
2- Change the process - The most likely cause of these errors would be premature removal of the drives (windows stop hardware B.S.)

Casey

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From: Justin Popa [mailto:tehpopa at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:35 AM
To: grlug at grlug.org
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Flash Disk Recovery

Well here's the issue. These are used by doctors every 30 minutes. Basically goes like this:

Doc sees patient.
Doc dictates letter.
(Repeat 4-5 times)
Doc inserts dictation device into cradle and it downloads information and erases original files.

Rinse and repeat 10 times a day, for 30 doctors.
On Nov 28, 2007 8:59 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
On Nov 28, 2007 8:00 PM,  <adderd at kkmfg.com> wrote:
> On Wed, November 28, 2007 4:46 pm, Rick Vargo wrote:
> > Is FAT all that the dictation devices support?  If the devices support
> > other more robust filesystems (with journaling) use them in lieu of FAT.
> >
> > Rick
>
> I'm sure that they don't support anything other than FAT and if they did
> you would still not want to do it. Journaling is bad, bad, bad to use on
> flash drives. It wears them out.
Not really true on modern flash devices with much better per-cell
lifetimes and with wear-leveling.  Granted, with 200 of them, there
were probably bought bottom-dollar discount, and may not have such
features. :-)

> Granted, it sounds as if the dictation equipment is junk and routinely
> destroys the drives anyway...
>
> Probably the best solution involves frequent backups and lots of spares.
Indeed.

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