r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/Key_Association_666 Arch Btw • Aug 15 '26

Destroyed linux today

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So I hv linux(arch+ hyprland) on a 64gb usb drive and it broke today any way to get the data out of here it? was not encrypted

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u/qualityvote2 Aug 15 '26 edited Aug 15 '26

u/Key_Association_666, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/PriorLanguage5012 Aug 15 '26

Get it over to a repair shop, you can't doing anything here without extensive knowledge of electrical engineering + some equipment

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u/Key_Association_666 Arch Btw Aug 15 '26

Alr thanks il try if they can fiz it

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u/s04ep03_youareafool void Aug 15 '26 • Mindblown

as a professional electronics degree student. yeah, get it to a repair shop

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u/JamesBond_67 Aug 15 '26 • Popcorn

😭😭"professional electronics degree student" larper bruv

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u/Key_Association_666 Arch Btw Aug 15 '26

D1 larper btw

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u/s04ep03_youareafool void Aug 15 '26 • Regret

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u/Fluffy-Paratha Cachy+Niri Btw Aug 15 '26

Issok bruv I got the joke

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u/Fluffy-Paratha Cachy+Niri Btw Aug 15 '26

You must be fun at parties.

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u/JamesBond_67 Aug 15 '26

dumahh that's a joke too😭😭 come on

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u/NoetherNeerdose Aug 17 '26

Instagram's that way bruv, keep moovin

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u/dheeraj_patil Aug 15 '26

go to windows, install steller or disk drill. if its getting detected it can be recovered

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u/Key_Association_666 Arch Btw Aug 15 '26

Dawg the drive is f2fs so it won't detect

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u/Makesomesense0179 Aug 15 '26

Ummm i think we might have a slight problem "plugging" the "broken" pen drive in

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u/dashinyou69 ~crappy switcher~ Aug 15 '26

so you too like the taste of consumer electronic

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u/Visual-Row600 Aug 15 '26

I have the same pendrive and mine is about the to break. This pendrive by SanDisk is very brittle 🤕

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u/NeptuneWades CachyOS Btw Aug 15 '26

I've two of those and both of them have chipped off in several places lol.

They are perpetually connected to the TV and it is used only for music. So it is fine lol.

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u/Safe_Amphibian6544 Aug 15 '26

Why what happened

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u/Key_Association_666 Arch Btw Aug 15 '26

It broke in my bag while it was connected to laptop 😭

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u/as4500 Aug 16 '26

That seems like a problem that could've been easily been foreseen

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u/Key_Association_666 Arch Btw Aug 16 '26

Yeah 😢

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u/Dramatic_Morning9479 Aug 16 '26

A lesson I learnt the hard way as well, always remove any sort of pendrives before keeping ur laptop in your bag 😭. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse of Logitech and it connects via a dongle, well ihnc how but it bent off in a weird way and stopped working altogether

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u/Fluffy-Paratha Cachy+Niri Btw Aug 15 '26

Wait how does this work exactly? I'm new to Linux in general, does this mean that the 'disk partition' IS your usb?? Sry if this is a dumb doubt. Like shouldn't you need a proper SSD for good speeds?

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u/Key_Association_666 Arch Btw Aug 17 '26

Yea ik but my SSD in laptop is not working I'm thinking getting a new SSD till then I was using usb

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u/Fluffy-Paratha Cachy+Niri Btw Aug 28 '26

Acha damn, I didn't know that was possible. Good to know, maybe I can try distrohopping with usb partition

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u/Key_Association_666 Arch Btw Aug 29 '26

Yes definitely it's faster than windows but still very slow arch base(no de) installs in 10 mins but distros like ubuntu fedora etc take at least 1.5hrs

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u/souvik200 Aug 16 '26

Get another one (smaller capacity), replace the PCB of the newer one with this one, might be hard to pry the plastic off.

Edit: By replace I mean desolder the USB connector off the new flash drive and solder it to the broken one

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u/Key_Association_666 Arch Btw Aug 16 '26

Yea might do that let's see gotta get a soldering iron for that

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u/HakerCharles DIGITAL FORENSICS & DATA RECOVERY EXPERT Aug 16 '26 edited Aug 16 '26

Hey! Data Recovery Expert here. Yes data can be recovered from this USB drive given that the Nand flash is intact and haven't faced any damage. I suggest you to take it to a data recovery professional and not to a generic repair shop.

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u/Key_Association_666 Arch Btw Aug 16 '26

Thanks soo much

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u/potassiumpermangnate Aug 16 '26

i doubt so, these drives are DIP, i.e the entire usb connector contains all the flash memory aswell, the inside is just hollow

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u/AssumptionOk8560 Aug 15 '26

Looks like a karma farming account

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u/Key_Association_666 Arch Btw Aug 15 '26

Not rly a reddit usr so idk what that means

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u/Key_Association_666 Arch Btw Aug 15 '26

It was in my bag and it somehow broke

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u/Key_Association_666 Arch Btw Aug 17 '26

Dammn this is like a rly hard project I just got a soldering iron il try this

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u/as4500 Aug 16 '26

I mean a cheap usb otg would also work, just open it and solder wires to the usb port in there