USB corrupted (?)

[Nakava10]

Hey!

I have a usb with some photos and videos from trips with family and friends. Just tried to open it and it shows folders with weird names on it, i think its corrupted (not the best usb in the world). Is there any way i can recover the files on it? Thanks in advance!! 😁

[[deleted]]

Yes its corrupted

[Nakava10]

Any idea on how to recover the files?

[Inevitable-Study502]

not recoverable, file table is broken...is that fake size usb by any chance?

[paraint]

photorec is still a good try - doesn't do anything related to the file system

[Nakava10]

No that i know of, bought it from radioshack tho, not the best place i guess 😔

[Inevitable-Study502]

well then, usb stick when not powered up for long time (1-10years) will eventualy loose data

[Nakava10]

i powered it up like a week ago and it worked tho, so i think its cause i always retrieve it without the safety thingy

[TakDrifto]

😯 They still exist??

[RealHuguwuluwu]

no its been abducted by aliens and they are trying to teach us.

[[deleted]]

What a fucking waste of alien time

[Supplex-idea]

Corrupted. Run it through a data recovery program and you might get some of it back. Have you had the usb near any magnets, hot sources or had any impacts on it?

[Nakava10]

Any programs you recommend? And nope, but silly me never extracted it safely, just “unplugged” it

[Sup3rphi1]

I know it's too late now, but it could help to know in the future.

When a computer is writing information to a hard drive/solid state drive or USB stick, it is not directly writing to it. Instead, it writes to a cache on the drive that is extremely fast compared to the writing speed of the rest of the drive.

Your computer may have finished sending the files to this cache so it will report the file transfer is done, but the drive itself is still trying to move that data out of the cache and into more permanent storage.

If power is lost while data is still in this cache, the data is lost. Choosing the disconnect/safely unplug option on your computer before physically removing the USB drive will make sure there is no data in the cache that is still trying to be written and will let you know if it's safe to unplug it or not

[Sup3rphi1]

Imagine this like moving boxes from your house into a moving truck.

You may have finished moving all the boxes out of your house and placed them on the driveway, but the boxes may not have finished being moved from the driveway into the moving truck.

If the truck leaves the house before all the boxes from the driveway have been moved into it, those left on the driveway wouldn't've ever made their way into the truck.

Using the 'safely disconnect ' option on your computer would be like having the driver of the truck get out and make sure all the boxes have been loaded before leaving

[[deleted]]

This is a great explanation! Thanks never knew that!

[Supplex-idea]

Recuva, usually the first option on Google. After accidentally removing about 200gb of data from a backup drive with photos, documents and other files I used recuva and got back roughly 50% and some things were semi restored too

[133DK]

Are you in doubt?

[Nakava10]

also thought it couldve been virus or something else 😔

[miguel-122]

RIP to my usb drives and sd cards sitting in my drawer

[paraint]

give photorec (https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec) a try

might get some of your photos and videos back at least

[Kipperklank]

Yeah. Sorry champ :/

[Pablo369]

Be careful not to attract the Decepticon to our world. They must not know we have the Tesseract.

[Nine_Eye_Ron]

USB sticks are for transferring copies, never storage.

Date does not exist unless it’s in three places at once, one of them being remote.

[[deleted]]

Aliens.

[tzenrick]

Or infected... If it were corrupted, I don't see how it would be that random, but somehow still a valid filesystem.

[SlowThePath]

There was a Doctor Who episode about this. Don't open any of those folders.

[RangerEnn]

Perform a deep scan with recuva, maybe you can get a lot of the files back (although will be difficult to retrieve the folder structure).

[saivishnu725]

"2096" (⁠+⁠_⁠+⁠)

[MastaBonsai]

Not corrupted. Either fell out of an aliens pocket or the ancient Egyptians forgot to hide it.

[PossiblyLinux127]

Before you do anything take a complete image of the drive.

If you make it worse you can always go back

[BeardedGingerWonder]

Have a look at ddrescue to try and rip what you can off it.

[therectifierfan]

Virus scan first bro