Hi All,

I'm in a panic mode right now coz I'm on the verge of loosing a bunch of important files. Here's the situation:

I have a USB thumb drive, as I was deleting some files in the drive inside windows, it corrupted my drive. At first I could actually see the drive and saw the file structures in it, so I tried to back up the whole thing. As I tried to do that it corrupted my drive even more. Next thing I know, Windows can't even read the drive. It recognized it as a "removable drive", but it has 0 bytes, and it's empty. I've tried quite a few recovery programs to save it, but none even regard it as a drive. No luck at all using any resource I know from Windows.

Luckily there's Knoppix. When I booted up Knoppix Live CD, plug in the drive, it sees it and I can even see the list of files in the drive. But when I tried to drag some of the folders onto the desktop, it stalled after the first few seconds, and it lost the drive. I tried a few times and whenever Knoppix tried to read the drive or open a file, the drive would suddenly disappear.

What is the problem? Is my USB drive dead, or is it just the file system being damaged? Is there some kind of recovery program in Knoppix that can save my drive?

Thank you very much for your help!!! I've got a bunch of resumes and cover letters in the drive, and I'm in the middle of a job search process.....