Talk:How To Recover

One thing I feel that should be mentioned, relative to the "Doctor disconnects at 8%" issue:

• • • It IS possible to get data off the Pre before reformatting the USB drive. I know because I went through this process myself.

What you'll need is the Palm PDK. In the /share/jars/ directory is a file called DeviceBrowser.jar. Once you've done the 'lvm.static' steps, you can open the DeviceBrowser program and you should be able to see the directory tree for the Pre.

As far as I can tell, you can only perform file operations on one file at a time, but you will be able to select and save (to another volume) nearly any file you find. I did this with the pictures and videos that I did not want to lose.

There are other, more complicated ways to try to create a tarball file and save it to the computer that's connected to the Pre, but this might be simpler for some folks.

• • • NOTE: this must be done BEFORE the 'mkdosfs' command is issued.

I hope this helps someone who is going through this issue and wants to have some way to preserve the contents of their USB drive.