
OT: Nothing new to add, no proposed approach other than what Sunrat already did and I +1'ed it. Sorry OP, haven't yet come up against such a situation, kinda stinks.
shep wrote:There is another way to spin the $$$$. I view forums as a repository for information and information has value. The original poster is not the first nor will they be the last to blow away the firmware on a usb3.* drive. If we can get this sorted out and marked [SOLVED], it can help a number of users. The forums efforts would be multiplied by the total number of users who benefit.
p.H wrote:This method won't recover anything.
USB sticks are not MTDs. MTDs are bare flash chips accessed directly by the system, commonly found in embedded systems such as routers and smartphones, and require specific handling and filesystems such as YAFFS or UBIFS. USB sticks have an FTL (flash translation layer) controller which interfaces with the flash chips and present the stick as a regular block device. dd won't read or write hidden parts of the flash memory.
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