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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: George Clarke on October 31, 2005, 12:23:04 PM

Title: JumpDrive not working
Post by: George Clarke on October 31, 2005, 12:23:04 PM

I dropped my JumpDrive and now it doesn't work. At least that is the only thing that I can think of that would cause the problem. It worked, then it didn't.

I have very important files on this JumpDrive. Is there a way to recover them?

Title: Re: JumpDrive not working
Post by: Raptor on October 31, 2005, 12:31:50 PM

Send it to a professional data recovery firm and expect to pay a high price.

Title: Re: JumpDrive not working
Post by: Fed on October 31, 2005, 12:34:39 PM

Check it very carefully for a tiny lock switch.

Title: Re: JumpDrive not working
Post by: George Clarke on October 31, 2005, 12:42:46 PM

Where would this switch be?  ???

Title: Re: JumpDrive not working
Post by: Fed on October 31, 2005, 12:54:38 PM

On the drive.

Title: Re: JumpDrive not working
Post by: George Clarke on October 31, 2005, 01:07:34 PM

No kidding... It's on the drive!  :P I thought it might be. I assume that your joking .

I just wanted to know if there were a specific place to look, what it would look like. You said to look very careful. That gave me the impression that maybe it was hard to see.

Thanks for the help anyway.

Title: Re: JumpDrive not working
Post by: George Clarke on October 31, 2005, 01:08:44 PM

No kidding... It's on the drive!  :P I thought it might be. I assume that your joking.

I just wanted to know if there were a specific place to look, what it would look like. You said to look very careful. That gave me the impression that maybe it was hard to see.

Thanks for the help anyway.

Title: Re: JumpDrive not working
Post by: Fed on October 31, 2005, 01:15:16 PM

The quality of the answers depends on the quality of the question, perhaps it may have been a good idea to give us a little more detail.
It's your drive, we don't even know the brand.  ???

Title: Re: JumpDrive not working
Post by: gcii on October 31, 2005, 01:37:04 PM

OK. Must be misunderstanding somewhere. Whatever the case I do appreciate help. I have a Lexar, 128MB, red & black JumpDrive.

Does this clarify the question?

Title: Re: JumpDrive not working
Post by: Fed on October 31, 2005, 09:11:02 PM

It doesn't look like it has a lock switch on it.  :(

What happens when you plug it in?
Have you tried it on a different computer?
Remember it needs drivers for win98.

Title: Re: JumpDrive not working
Post by: gcii on November 01, 2005, 09:06:21 AM

"What happens when you plug it in?"

Nothing. The little light on it doesn't even come on... I plugged another one in and it wirked fine.

"Have you tried it on a different computer?"

I just tried it at my office, and still no go.

"Remember it needs drivers for win98."

I assume that these are allready installed as it worked on both computers before.

Title: Re: JumpDrive not working
Post by: GX1_Man on November 01, 2005, 10:41:27 AM

Internal damage from a drop broke some connector inside? I had no idea these things were so fragile!
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