data recovery Can I DIY recover data from USB that has data protection turn on?

[simon01920]

Hi there, 

 

I need little help with something. I have a friend, and his USB is readable, but there are 3,7GB files on the USB. Still, only a few MB is accessible, and there is the whole folder that is corrupted, I tried R-studio. Still, it finds nothing when I tried to analyze data on partitions; it only showed me a bunch of a blank folders and in it nothing. I was wondering, is something that I, as a nopro in data recovery, can do with this kind of corruption and this data protection nonsense? 

 

Format: Fat32

[Touch My Hamm]

Others might have more experience than me as I only worked with an external data recover company. They could pretty much recover anything with enough time and money. With encryption it could be difficult depending on the encryption method. Anything like Bitlocker with 256 bit encryption then you might be out of luck. When I was with my old company they charged upwards of $1000 for some recoveries on nand flash as it was much more difficult than traditional HDD. Though we did have this one student who spilled coffee on her Mac air and burned out the SSD and she lost her doctoral theses. After recovery they got everything back but it cost her $1600 but she was super happy and I got a card and a thank you letter lol. 

[nick name]

I don't know the difficulties involved with your situation, but you could try a free program called Recuva to see what it might be able to recover.  

[A.Hruskach]

First things first, image or copy the drive bit-for-bit!! Don't attempt to recover data directly from the drive as it could overwrite existing data. Use a disk imaging utility, like Clonezilla,  to clone the drive into an .IMG or .RAW file. This will copy all data on the drive, every binary one and zero, litteraly. Then use use Photorec to scan the raw disk file. This is somewhat a more sophisticated process, but it yields a higher success rate.