Field-operable, stand-alone apparatus for media recovery and regeneration
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1. A method comprising:
- accessing data on a flash media;
searching the data for file indicia corresponding at least one predetermined file type;
reading the data based on information in the file indicia, the data including a recovered file; and
storing the recovered file on a storage medium.
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Abstract
A method for recovering data from corrupted flash media and regenerated damaged flash media have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises accessing data on a flash media, searching the data for file indicia corresponding at least one predetermined file type, reading the data based on information in the file indicia, the data including a recovered file, and storing the recovered file on a storage medium. Other embodiments have been claimed and described.
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24 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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accessing data on a flash media;
searching the data for file indicia corresponding at least one predetermined file type;
reading the data based on information in the file indicia, the data including a recovered file; and
storing the recovered file on a storage medium. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method comprising:
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determining a media type of a flash media;
building a physical-to-logical table mapping physical storage locations to logical storage locations based on a media type of the flash media;
searching the flash media for a file header corresponding to at least one predetermined file type using the physical-to-logical table;
reading data from the flash media based on information in the file header to recover data corresponding to at least one application file from the flash media; and
storing the recovered data on a storage medium. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method comprising:
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determining a media type of a flash media;
identifying a damaged file system component;
employing a lookup table containing file system parameters to rebuild the file system component based on the media type of the flash media to generate rebuild data; and
rewriting a corrupted portion of the flash media with the rebuild data. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method comprising:
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determining a media type of a flash media;
identifying a damaged file system component;
employing a lookup table containing file system parameters to rebuild the file system component based on the media type of the flash media to generate rebuild data; and
rewriting a corrupted portion of the flash media with the rebuild data. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
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