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rjbinney

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USB Drive - Erased???!?!!
« on: November 21, 2006, 07:39:32 AM »
I have a Western Digital 80GB external HD, connects through USB.

Works great. Have backups for both machines on it.

Having trouble - as noted in Windows forum - with one machine booting. I ran a backup on Friday, but downloaded some stuff Sunday.

So I plug the HD into my machine, boot off the UBCD4WIN CD, and my external HD doesn't appear when it's done booting....

So I unplug it, and plug it into my "good" machine, and it's NOT RECOGNIZED!!!!

Reboot, still NOT RECOGNIZED!!!!!

If I click on the Safely Remove Hardware tray icon, it shows "USB Mass Storage" device... But it's not mapped anywhere!!!

I don't care HOW it happened... How can I recover my data???!?!?

(And before the finger-waggers post - there is no "Safely Remove Hardware" option in UBCD's shell....)
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Re: USB Drive - Erased???!?!!
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2006, 07:54:25 AM »
Device Manager=>Computer Management=>Storage=>Disk Management:
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Now that can't be good, can it?
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Re: USB Drive - Erased???!?!!
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2006, 10:04:13 AM »
And if you right click on it in My Computer and choose properties what does it say for File System? Was it previously an NTFS format?

I fear I know the answer. Have a read here:

http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1162467047

I don't think you hardware has failed you. I believe Windows has. As for a solution:

http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1152393515
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Re: USB Drive - Erased???!?!!
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2006, 12:19:05 PM »
I'm watching...GX1
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Re: USB Drive - Erased???!?!!
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2006, 10:26:03 PM »
I'm travelling for the holiday, so I can't answer those q's til I get back. (Doing this on my palm pilot.)

I HAVE made a live linux cd (SLAX Kill Bill)... it did NOT recognize the external drive when I tried earlier. Are there "mounting" instructions I should know?

Thanks!
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Re: USB Drive - Erased???!?!!
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2006, 03:52:10 AM »
I have not used the Kill Bill edition, but I would suggest you try the Linspire LiveCD in that link. Nothing to mount there.
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Re: USB Drive - Erased???!?!!
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2006, 05:32:21 AM »
Well, in "Kill Bill", it DOES recognize usb sticks as soon as I plug them in... Just not my external HD.

Can't work on this til next Tuesday... Very frustrating not knowing how I'm getting out of this!
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« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2006, 06:10:55 AM »
See you next Tuesday then. Happy Thanksgiving.

What happens when that drive is plugged into a different computer?
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Re: USB Drive - Erased???!?!!
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2006, 05:13:06 PM »
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What happens when that drive is plugged into a different computer?
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So I unplug it, and plug it into my "good" machine, and it's NOT RECOGNIZED!!!!

Reboot, still NOT RECOGNIZED!!!!!

If I click on the Safely Remove Hardware tray icon, it shows "USB Mass Storage" device... But it's not mapped anywhere!!!
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Device Manager=>Computer Management=>Storage=>Disk Management:
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Now that can't be good, can it?
« Last Edit: November 23, 2006, 05:14:20 PM by rjbinney »
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Re: USB Drive - Erased???!?!!
« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2006, 08:45:48 AM »
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I have not used the Kill Bill edition, but I would suggest you try the Linspire LiveCD in that link. Nothing to mount there.
Linspire's 60 bucks. Sounds like a shot in the dark... I'd be better off buying data recovery software. I PRESUME that this is a NTFS drive, right?
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Re: USB Drive - Erased???!?!!
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2006, 05:08:32 PM »
The live CD is free from the link I gave you.

What are the properties of the USB drive if you right click on it? It should show the file system.
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Re: USB Drive - Erased???!?!!
« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2006, 05:13:24 PM »
It doesn't show up anywhere, so I CAN'T right-click it. The ONLY info I can find on it is in Device Manager, as posted above.

The link you gave for Linspire ultimately dies... Nothing there to download. Unless I have TOTALLY lost it.
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Re: USB Drive - Erased???!?!!
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2006, 05:15:47 PM »
Try this link direct from Linspire, but you will need a BitTorrent client like BitTornado:

http://www.linspire.com/cnr_linspirelive.php

http://www.bittornado.com/download.html
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Re: USB Drive - Erased???!?!!
« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2006, 08:22:55 PM »
Thanks. I'll try it tomorrow. I'm a big fan of Azureus.
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« Reply #14 on: December 01, 2006, 09:10:31 AM »
Alright, I've built a Linspire Live CD, and I have similar issues as with the Kill Bill. (btw, I like the interface of Linspire a lot more. Thanks)

Issues:

- STILL can't see USB drive! Arrgggh!

- Also - in neither of the Live environments, I can NOT move/delete any files that are on my main HD. At first I thought it might have to do with the protection of the various Windows users' "Documents" subdirectories, but even in MAIN subdirectories, if I try to delete a file, I get a "Cannot access"... Now, I can LAUNCH those same files, just not delete them.

Any thoughts on THAT thread-jumping second point?

Thanks!
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