Re: Assessing USB Mass Storage devices

[email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Thomas Dodd wrote:
>>Save all the pictures first.
>>Back up the device with 'dd if=/dev/sda of=camara.img'
>>You can always look through the image with and editor.
>>Or write it back to the camera (swap if/of in dd command)
>>To restore the previous state.
>>
>>In windows try fdisk on the device.
>>and look for clues.
>>
>>Try 'mkfs.vfat /dev/sda' and see it you can
> 
> 
> Do _NOT_ write to the camera untill you know what you are doing.
> 
> You _can_ work on the backup file you took (or a copy of that).

Since he cannot read the data from the camera, nor write to the camera 
it doesn't matter much.

If he could read and write, then trying to format the device would be 
fine. Then eithe r teh camera would reformat it (likely) or
he'd just write the old data back to restore to the previous state.

	-Thomas