usb - Recovering Crashed Flash drive?

So my friend has a USB flash drive that isn't working. I don't know a whole lot about "recovery" software so I figured I'd ask you guys.

What steps can I try (I have access to a Linux machine as well) to see....if I can get ANYTHING off the flash drive?

I've google'd around, but most of the stuff seems for windows.

Answer

You can use TestDisk to recover files from FAT, NTFS, exFAT and ext2 filesystem.

For recovering photos use PhotoRec