I have a usb memory stick to transfer files between my home
and office computer.

When plugging in the stick dmesg contains:

hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-8, assigned address 7
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Generic Model: Flash Disk Rev: 8.01
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdb: 511998 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb4
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 7

When I mount the stick:

mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/stick
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

dmesg contains:

I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
FAT: unable to read boot sector

It seems that the boot sector is corrupt, it worked the last time
I used it (a couple of weeks ago, the stick is about 3 months)

Is there a way to restore the boot sector or should I get a
new stick?

Henk Jan