Tried that, thanks. The little micro in the SD CARD is probably permanently confused. It is a Danke SD CARD 512M. Thanks but I don't plan to persue it further until I get a professional RAM analyser that will properly reset the chip. It,however, makes for the world's smallest door stop. I used everything including the linux freeware dd utility (forgot the name of it takes uses ever smaller windows to recover all the data). that proved the most useful. After four hours, it read the whole chip and told me it was a 256M with clusters of 1 byte. It is a 512M. All the sectors were unreadable. Nothing quite like the old Norton Utilities that let you play with a raw FAT system from Linux. -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Shanahan <cshanahan@comcast.net> Subj: [SLE] Data Recovery [Was: Re: [SLE] Re: USB Pen Drive - Enabling unmounting and other issues] Date: Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:00 pm Size: 920 bytes To: suse-linux-e@suse.com On Friday 19 August 2005 13:39, Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd Mobile w/ Treo wrote:

I already porked a 512M SD Card in a SD read/writer in SuSE 9.2 and 9.3 and do not wish to repeat the expierence. BTW, it was porked by a Treo 650 and it can not be used properly.

I wished someone who write a proper recover utility that does not blindly read the MS FAT descriptor block that is still telling me the SD card is now 256M of clusters of 1 byte size and no way of fixing it via software.

What software are you referring to? I'm curious.

And yes, I have tried all the linux software out there with no success.

What have you tried? As an alternative to trying to read the FAT, you could search the media by file header, such as with foremost -- in conjunction with The Sleuthkit and Autopsy. If the data is valuable, then consider investing in SMART. (http://w w w.asrdata.com/SMART) HTH -- Christopher Shanahan