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    Default A question for the computer gurus around here

    Ok, here's a quick summary of a problem I'm having and trying to fix.

    My friend had a sony vaio USB hard drive that he unplugged before the device was "parked" and it lost his file system. (his description, not mine) He has a lot of sentimental pics on the device and wants to salvage them if he can. He could care less about the hard drive and gave it to me to see if i can get his pics and other data back for him.

    Does anyone know of a way to recover the device's file system, or get to the data so I can get his pics back and give it to him for xmas? lol
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    Default Re: A question for the computer gurus around here

    We had a hard drive go bad at work a few years ago. It had to be sent out to be saved. It was not cheap.

    I am sure there are guys here more knowledgeable than I.

    But does the drive do anything when you try to access it?
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    Default Re: A question for the computer gurus around here

    Quote Originally Posted by normanvin View Post
    We had a hard drive go bad at work a few years ago. It had to be sent out to be saved. It was not cheap.

    I am sure there are guys here more knowledgeable than I.

    But does the drive do anything when you try to access it?
    Excellent question, and I should have described that in my OP.

    When I plug the device in, I get a pop up bubble that says the USB device has malfunctioned and is not recognized by windows. I try to locate driver for it, but it sits there searching for a while, and then says driver could not be found.

    I can take his hard drive out of the case and put in one of my own and it recognizes it immediately. So the issue is isolated to his hard drive.
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    Can you read it when you put it in your pc? Sounds like maybe the usb enclosure may have died.
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    Default Re: A question for the computer gurus around here

    Quote Originally Posted by normanvin View Post
    Can you read it when you put it in your pc? Sounds like maybe the usb enclosure may have died.
    If the enclosure was defective, the other hard drives inserted into it wouldn't read. I've narrowed it down to his specific HD.
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    Default Re: A question for the computer gurus around here

    I had that happen to a LaCie USB external drive recently, and there was nothing that could be done... hardware problem with the drive that MAYBE you could send out to an expensive place to try to recover the files.

    With the cheap price of hard drives nowadays, there's no excuse for not backing up your files to at least one other device, CD, plug-in USB memory stick, etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Kayland View Post
    I had that happen to a LaCie USB external drive recently, and there was nothing that could be done... hardware problem with the drive that MAYBE you could send out to an expensive place to try to recover the files.

    With the cheap price of hard drives nowadays, there's no excuse for not backing up your files to at least one other device, CD, plug-in USB memory stick, etc.
    I agree on the back up. I have a network drive that has a raid system built in. I only plug it in when I want to transfer something to it. I also have a external drive that i back up just my .mp3 collection.
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    Default Re: A question for the computer gurus around here

    I back up all my stuff, no worries there.

    I'm not asking how to back up or prevent this from happening. I'm asking how to fix his screw up. lol He understands now why I keep telling him to back stuff up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sinful View Post
    I back up all my stuff, no worries there.

    I'm not asking how to back up or prevent this from happening. I'm asking how to fix his screw up. lol He understands now why I keep telling him to back stuff up.
    Some people just have to learn the hard way. With the advent of the digital camera it is even that much more important to have a back up system in place.

    Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
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    Default Re: A question for the computer gurus around here

    Quote Originally Posted by normanvin View Post
    Some people just have to learn the hard way. With the advent of the digital camera it is even that much more important to have a back up system in place.

    Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
    Ditto.

    I'm not asking how to back up or prevent this from happening. I'm asking how to fix his screw up.
    I know you weren't asking for 20/20 hindsight, but I couldn't think of any better way to say in my previous post that, basically, the drive is dead... and your buddy is screwed.

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