[SOLVED] Samsung USB Partition issue

[frase]

EDIT: Successfully recovered partitions and data, though is a mystery why a TV would do this automatically ?

About year ago the customer took their laptop to a local business in my town, and they took data off and put onto usb Photos/Videos
The customer stated they plugged the USB into their Aldi TV [probs BAUHN] and viewed the photos via the "Media Device" option in "Source".

Now the other day the customer plugged the USB into a laptop and does the "Format Drive" prompt.
The customer also stated it will not work on the TV either now.

So I have imaged the USB via DDRESCUE and mounted it and it does show that it now has Android Partitions - not NTFS.
I have gatherered that the USB has had it's table structure changed to Android due to the TV, I have never seen this before.

In regards to a TV auto changing the Partition Table Structure without a prompt, I asked the client and they stated it never prompted anything.

Here are images of the USB Partition Structure as I see it, anyone came accross this before? So what I am planning on doing is trying to repair the original structure on the image rather than the original device or recover data. If I cannot successfully do that, I will send it off for professional recovery service I use.

 

[NviGate Systems]

I wonder if the TV did a firmware update and it did it then. Normally for updates like that I recall a warning to remove all media devices, maybe when it updated it had to update partition and it did it on the stick too

 

[Markverhyden]

So I have imaged the USB via DDRESCUE and mounted it and it does show that it now has Android Partitions - not NTFS.

Data is gone in it's conventional when the partition format is changed. In essence you are just doing a quick format. But I'd bet you can us R-Studio and do a RAW scan and get data back that way.

 

[frase]

Data is gone in it's conventional when the partition format is changed. In essence you are just doing a quick format. But I'd bet you can us R-Studio and do a RAW scan and get data back that way.

Thanks though I managed to retrieve the data - not partitions. I used Disk Genius though working via a DDRESCUE img not the original device.

 

[frase]

I wonder if the TV did a firmware update and it did it then. Normally for updates like that I recall a warning to remove all media devices, maybe when it updated it had to update partition and it did it on the stick too

Customer was unsure, so maybe it did warn and they flicked past it.