At least a first sensible advice after so many useless posts. The filesystem is damaged and requires write access to be repaired. But write access won't happen on the pendrive.pylkko wrote:I suggest you dd/ddrescue the data away from the drive and see if you can find a way to use it.
But the suggested command must be corrected. The pendrive appears to contain two partitions. Partition 1 seems to be mountable and readable as is, so let's concentrate on partition 2.
Create a copy of partition 2 :
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dd if=/dev/sdc2 of=partition2.img bs=4k
Of course not. Why do so many people confuse a disk image and an ISO 9660 filesystem ?bkpsusmitaa wrote:Won't the resulting .img file be readable by any ISO reading package?
Any image is not an "ISO" image. Disk or partition images do not usually contain an ISO 9660 filesystem, one exception being installation/live hybrid images. Only images of optical media may be ISO images.
/dev/sdc2 contains an ext4 filesystem, so the image file contains an ext4 filesystem too. It can be mounted like a regular partition with the mount command (the "-o loop" option is not required any more) or checked with e2fsck.