[GRLUG] Flash Disk Recovery

[Justin Popa]

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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