Partition table corrupted (USB flash drive)

Partition table corrupted (USB flash drive) It's an 8 GB Patriot thumb drive, which I've used extensively with lots of data. Today, it is detected, but all data is gone: (EDIT at least some data is still there, but the partition table is gone)
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"While it's possible to rebuild the partition table, the first thing you should do it to take an image of the device. You can do this with dd if=/dev/sdb of=~/memstick.img - changing paths as needed.

Once you've done that, run PhotoRec, which should be able to pull out any files that are on there. If you've got everything you need, format the stick and start again, if not, you can try further data recovery."