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653441 2008-03-27 23:12:00 Hi . Can anyone help me? I have an old 128k Lexar Jumpdrive USB drive and I am unable to recover files from it . I did try a program called Badcopy which did the job, but unless I paid up, the recovered files were not able to be made available . Does anyone know of a similar program but which is freeware?

If I try other similar programs they seem to stop half way through as they usually report "bad sectors" on flash drive and stop operating .

I do not know how to delete files from the drive as I suspect some tmp files may be causing the problem . Has anyone any idea how I can fix it .

I found a number of programs in addition to Badcopy that did the job, but unless you pay, even in a demo, you were unable to recover the files "processed" by the software . Also some times I get a Windows error message referring to an "I/O error"

So I am at a loss how to fix this . Any help would be most appreciated . I intend once I succeed in recovering the files on the flash drive to discard it . I now have a Cruzer Micro 1GB U3 flash drive and find this very good .

Thank you

Alistair
seekwn (13547)
653442 2008-03-27 23:18:00 http://www.recuva.com/ zqwerty (97)
653443 2008-03-27 23:47:00 Visit portable (www.portablefreeware.com) freeware, then the recovery (www.portablefreeware.com) section. There's a few to chose from... kahawai chaser (3545)
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