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Flash drive recovery in Linux?

Got an old thumb drive I refuse to toss? Any good ways to get the stuff off it?

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i want to recover what used to be on it it has been dead for like a decade and i'm just wondering if there's still a way to get the old pics off it

skillissuer

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yeah probably, if you can read that disk at all that is https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/file_recovery

you probably want to make a copy first, then recover files from that copy, as not to damage disk further. you might find photorec useful

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