Recovering Files from a 128k Lexar Jumpdrive USB Drive

Hi. Can anyone help me? I have an old 128k Lexar Jumpdrive USB drive and I am unable to recover files from it. I did try a program called Badcopy which did the job, but unless I paid up, the recovered files were not able to be made available. Does anyone know of a similar program but which is freeware?

If I try other similar programs they seem to stop half way through as they usually report "bad sectors" on flash drive and stop operating.

I do not know how to delete files from the drive as I suspect some tmp files may be causing the problem. Has anyone any idea how I can fix it.

I found a number of programs in addition to Badcopy that did the job, but unless you pay, even in a demo, you were unable to recover the files "processed" by the software. Also some times I get a Windows error message referring to an "I/O error"

So I am at a loss how to fix this. Any help would be most appreciated. I intend once I succeed in recovering the files on the flash drive to discard it. I now have a Cruzer Micro 1GB U3 flash drive and find this very good.

Thank you

Alistair

 

Welcome to Major Geeks. One good thing that came from running BadCopy is at least you know the files are recoverable. There's several free tools here at Major Geeks and elsewhere:
Ultimate Data Recovery http://www.majorgeeks.com/Ultimate_Data_Recovery_d5336.html
TestDisk http://www.majorgeeks.com/TestDisk_&_PhotoRec_d5561.html (I'm not sure if this supports USB drives)
PCInspector http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm (works great!)
Smart Recovery http://smart-data-recovery-mobile.smart-pc-solutions-inc.qarchive.org/

Of the above programs, I have only used PCInspector (many times) and TestDisk (once or twice) so I can't comment on the other two. But they're all free, so you really have nothing to lose.
Good luck! I hope this helps!

 

Thank you for your help. I will soon see if it works. If not I may come back to you.

Thanks again

Alistair

 

The above link for Smart Recovery says 'freeware'. I thought I'd check out this program in case I need it someday, or so I could recommend it to someone else. IT IS NOT FREEWARE! The same company has an app called Smart Flash Recovery (not free) that will recover one file a day for 3 days before you are required to pay. So if you only have 3 files, and you're in no hurry, it will work. I apologize for posting it as free; I should have researched it further, my bad