I'm trying to ID (and maybe recover) the filesystem/partition table. Friend brought a "broken" USB drive, Windows can't recognise the partition layout.
Under Linux, fdisk says the partition table is empty. Tried mounting it as NTFS, vfat, no luck. With fdisk/mkfs, created an empty: DOS partition table, ntfs and fat filesystems, tried to compare magic numbers in the first block of the respective three and the broken drive - none seem alike. dd'd the first 1MB of the drive to a file on disk (so that file doesn't say it's a block device), file said "data".
This is the first 8 lines of hd:
00000000 0e 21 e9 6e 2c 64 39 b5 63 bf a5 08 8b 07 85 a6 |.!.n,d9.c.......|
00000010 63 aa ec 58 c3 ff fb 92 64 ec 80 02 f4 3c 4c d1 |c..X....d....<L.|
00000020 8f 2a e4 58 24 39 ba 3d 86 4a 8e e0 d3 27 ac 60 |.*.X$9.=.J...'.`|
00000030 eb 81 73 9f 26 68 f6 15 72 60 02 6b 32 32 4c 75 |..s.&h..r`.k22Lu|
00000040 b1 0a cd ff ff ff f4 ea 23 c8 2a ba 25 01 20 9d |........#.*.%. .|
00000050 26 52 b1 31 2c 4d 72 b1 2f bc 9f 1f 59 5b 98 98 |&R.1,Mr./...Y[..|
00000060 41 9d 3c 10 17 d0 58 9a ab 24 d9 31 ff 3a 79 55 |A.<...X..$.1.:yU|
00000070 f3 88 08 6b 57 ec 7a 5f ff e0 21 c7 87 4c 62 83 |...kW.z_..!..Lb.|
Any idea how to proceed with the recovery?