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GrasshopperFK
2 years ago

Charge Knoppix and try to access it.

If the USB stick is not defective, but “only” problems with the file system or the like, then you should be able to access the files and save them.

GrasshopperFK
2 years ago
Reply to  DaPenne

That’s Linux! https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/
Knoppix is designed to start a Linux system without installation. You can either create a bootable USB stick or burn an ISO image on disc and start a Linux system from the respective medium.

GrasshopperFK
2 years ago

You don’t understand what Knoppix is.
Knoppix is a “mobile operating system”, i.e. it does not have to be installed and can either be started from a disc or a USB stick.

What are you doing?
The Linux file system support is “more extensive” than that of Windows, which is why you (if your unrecognized USB stick is not defective) are likely to see your data again and save it.

So you need either a blank where you burn Knoippix on it, or a second USB stick where you make Knoppix bootable on it. Depending on whether your PC has a disc drive at all.

So if you have Knoppix ready to start, you start your PC from the USB stick or disc (if necessary, the boot order must be changed in the BIOS) and Linux will be launched. Your Windows installation remains unaffected.
After Linux is started, you can insert your (under WIndows) non-readable USB stick and see if you can access the files again.

If it works and you could save your data, you can start your PC completely normal again and it’s all back as before.

julihan41
2 years ago

I’ll write you what I’d try:

  1. Try it from a Linux system.
  2. Check if it happened to the file system.
  3. Create an image of the stick by dd, so you can work on it.
  4. Work there with a “rescue system”. There are some who specialize in recovery.

If you are not worth the stress: buy new USB stick and play the data from a backup. And you have a backup, after all it doesn’t mean for free: “No backup? No pity!”

See also

https://youtu.be/jN5mICXIG9M

ANT95
1 year ago

The files stored on the stick may have been stored as hidden files. So you don’t see these files.
In the Explorer, you can select the display of hidden files in the View tab.

WillEsWissen64
2 years ago

Buy a new one

WillEsWissen64
2 years ago
Reply to  DaPenne

Then send for repair and add 100€+

SkyKingPX
2 years ago

It must first be formatted

Basstom
2 years ago
Reply to  DaPenne

There are usually committees with answers, not to mention at all. 😉

julihan41
2 years ago
Reply to  SkyKingPX

In this case, the data on the data are:D

SkyKingPX
2 years ago
Reply to  julihan41

Is there anything else on it?!

Then only a new stick helps