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Originally Posted by Atter
Maybe you missed my last sentence: Thats where i'm now. I think it should be a hardware fault, but i don't know which one...
If a boot CD or virtual machine works then i can do it.
But if it needs serial communication i don't know how to install my USB-TTL cable driver into the linux. And if it would be a VM then i don't know if the USB passthru will or will not work  |
Any recent LiveCD will recognize it.
You will need at least 3Gbyte of writable space, so if going the LiveUSB route - pick a large USB stick.
VB? Not sure about that, you could try.
Here is what needs to be done (and why not Windows):
If the device will not auto-export the USB storage (special offers devices will not without access to the search bar) -
Then you'll have to use the 'Export USB' command (which you should be well practiced with at this point
).
The Linux distro will probably auto-mount the USB storage when you plug in the Kindle.
Bring up a file manager (if it didn't pop up by itself) - -
Right click the Kindle storage device - -
Select the 'unmount' choice, not the 'eject' choice (Windows does not make that distinction) - -
'tail' the dmesg file - the Kindle will show as a SCSI (sd?) device -
As in:
Code:
[1688912.200026] usb 2-5: new high speed USB device number 28 using ehci_hcd
[1688912.341674] scsi24 : usb-storage 2-5:1.0
[1688913.341251] scsi 24:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kindle Internal Storage 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[1688913.356329] sd 24:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
[1688913.360485] sd 24:0:0:0: [sde] 2797568 512-byte logical blocks: (1.43 GB/1.33 GiB)
[1688913.470754] sd 24:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[1688913.470759] sd 24:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 0f 00 00 00
[1688913.580762] sd 24:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[1688913.802078] sde: sde1
[1688914.090924] sd 24:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
In the above example, the raw storage device was: /dev/sde
The single partition was: /dev/sde1
The 'unmount' (spelled: umount) command dismounted the single partition, but the raw storage device is still available.
OK - now ...
We want a complete copy of the exported storage device -
So make the current directory a writable directory with lots of space.
Bring up a terminal and with substitution of the '/dev/sde' in this example with whatever '/dev/sd?' letter your dmesg showed - -
Code:
sudo dd if=/dev/sde of=usb-raw.img bs=4096
wait -
Compress the raw image (zeros compress real nice) - -
The file will now be compressed and renamed as: usb-raw.img.gz
Push that file to some network location that I can grab a copy of it.
The file does not contain any personal information, so it need not be a secure location.
PM me (and NiLuJe) where to grab it.
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FAT32 does not 'erase' the files stored on it - just changes their directory name.
The original factory files should still be on it, and if lucky, we can recover them.
Thank you, Bill Gates.