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photorec to the rescue
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Mon 29 April 2013

Once again PhotoRec has been able to save files from a corrupt FAT USB drive. The application scans the partition, looking for known files (based on the file magic) and then restores those files. The files are not named as they were though, so there is still some manual work …