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October 22, 2008 at 08:03 PM
khalilanasir

Cannot Access USB External Drive

by khalilanasir . Updated 17 years, 8 months ago

My C: drive recently crashed. I was getting OS not found following an audio edit i was doing on an audio production program. I bought a new HD, installed XP sp2 on the new drive, bought a usb enclosure for the old system drive with the intent of moving all my important files from that drive to new locations, since I figured the old drive is just plain trashed. when i plugged the old enclosed drive in to the pc, windows detects a mass storage device, but it doesn’t show up on My Computer… Disk Management sees it, but somehow it still won’t show up on My Computer so I can access the files. Also, if the usb is powered on when I boot the pc, it won’t even boot. once I turn the drive enclosure off, everything is normal. I remember when the pc crashed i tried repairing it, and it said that it couldn’t find the master boot record. The drive is a Quantum Fireball Lct 10 20… I’m at my wits end on how to access this drive! I tried Using GETDATABACK program, and it recognizes the drive but I get LBA access errors and the program crashes. Any ideas? I have very valuable data on this drive I must recover!

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