[Gloucs] Knackered USB Drive

[bjh at hbas.fsnet.co.uk]

Hi John,

 From many years experience I doubt freezing the hard Drive will be much 
use.

What you can do though is plug the drive into another computer and see 
if that computer can read the drive.

This will be able to identify if you just have a problem on your 
computer which is throwing up the error and not a drive problem.

If as you say it is only three months old, your best route is inevitably 
to take it back to the supplier and see if they can access the drive and 
copy the files you need from it.

Your other alternative is to load a Linux live CD like Knoppix and see 
if it will pick up the drive and allow you to copy what you need.

Best wishes

Barrie Haycock

Matthew Booth wrote:
> If you're getting physical drive errors, I've heard a number of people
> swear by freezing the drive. Apparently this will often give you a short
> window to copy stuff off. However, if windows is reporting it 'corrupt',
> you might just have filesystem problems.
>
> Matt
>
> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 19:55 +0100, John Patrick wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know of a usb disk drive recovery tool. I've just plugging my
>> usb disk drive into windows and it reports its as corrupt.
>>
>> I've only had the drive for about 3 months and no issues before this one. It
>> contains the majority of my stuff (pictures, documents, coding and vmware
>> images), as I was nearly finished after several weeks of transferring and
>> organising my stuff onto it before switching my laptop over to ubuntu and
>> running windows in a vmware image if i had to use it.
>>
>> John
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