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Mini PCI-e to USB adapter for Netbook SSD access

My old Asus Eee PC 1000 Linux netbook laptop finally kicked the bucket. It now frequently halts at random times, including immediately after pressing the power button. After some tests I concluded ...
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Western Digital My Passport 1TB HDD Failed - Any last ditch things I can do?

So two days ago now my USB 2.0/3.0 external hard drive would not come up in Windows. When I plug the drive in it spins up and Windows recognizes that a USB drive was plugged in (I get the sound, but ...
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Broken hard drive

I have a tower PC that recently had a boot error stating that the hard drive could not be read. When the computer starts up, you can hear the hard drive spinning up normally, just as it had in the ...
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Can I recover data from broken usb?

Whenever I put the USB into my PC it says: "You need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?". I press cancel and when I open the drive it says: "Please insert ...
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Hitachi SimpleDrive mini not recognised

My Hitachi SimpleDrive mini USB HDD, 500 GB, is not being recognized on my Windows 7 machine. It's LEDs flash with a delay, continuously. After I plug it out, Windows asks me to format it. I have a ...
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mounting a damaged USB in Cygwin

i read that usb devices should be auto-mounted in cygwin to their drive letter, such as /cygwin/g but that isn't happening for my damaged USB drive. i am trying to clone it using ddrescue. ideally i ...
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USB Stick Doesn't Mount But Is Detected

I have a USB memory stick (Mediastar 4GB) that has decided not to work. I have tried it in Macs and Windows, to no avail. The symptoms in Windows are that the icon appears in My Computer but cannot ...
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Recovering Crashed Flash drive?

So my friend has a USB flash drive that isn't working. I don't know a whole lot about "recovery" software so I figured I'd ask you guys. What steps can I try (I have access to a Linux machine as ...
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Should I run two ddrescue processes in parallel on separate logical drives?

I've got a Windows harddisk that had been partitioned into three drives: some proprietary ACER recovery partition C drive, about 90 GB D drive, about 60 GB It died hard, so now I've been running ...
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USB stick no longer recognised

I have an 8GB Transcend USB stick which - as of yesterday - is no longer recognised as such. When I plug into a USB port it shows as a new drive but clicking on the drive in Windows (XP) Explorer ...
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USB disk lost all information? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to recover a USB flash drive I put a .wmv file from a tutorial on my USB stick and while Windows Media Player was still open went to eat something. After that I ...
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Infected Win XP disk not openable on a Vista computer

How can I read a WinXP partioned disk that is infected and shows up on a USB connection to Win Vista computer as a single partition that Vista cannot see the contents? The XP computer HDD is partioned ...
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Recover an HFS+ formatted IDE drive connected via USB-IDE adapter

Interesting little problem I've encountered. I have a 120GB IDE drive connected to my Macbook via a IDE-USB adapter. I formatted it fresh with a single full-size HFS+ partition, backed backed up a ...
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How can I get data off of a damaged thumb drive?

A guy I work with just came by to ask me about a damaged thumb drive/USB flash drive. Apparently his son dropped it on a hard surface and it won't power up anymore. They've tried plugging it into ...
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usb flash disc recovery

Time is of the essence, since I just lost an usb stick with some important data, and I'm in a hurry regarding that data !! Usb stick, worked normally ... when plugged into another xp machine, stated ...
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How do I recover files from an USB flash drive? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: flash drive ejected improperly- lost files I have a USB flash drive that claims it needs to be formatted every time I put it into my computer (Windows). Yesterday the ...