USB drive not recognized: was, now not:

by MdViper Jul 20, 2005 4:35AM PDT

USB drive not recognized: was, now not:
all were working fine at work and at home.
usb 1.1, Win XP Pro
4 dif drives:
80 GB IOMEGA - still 'recognize',
but now VERY slow, hashing.
40 GB Toshiba pocket
asks if wish to reformat
512 MB compact flash -
asks if wish to reformat
256 mb thumb
asks if wish to reformat

Win XP Pro - did 'updates' cause this ?
change something ??

any way to recover data still there ??

Thanks

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Try another machine.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jul 20, 2005 4:51AM PDT

I've seen virus, trojans, worms do this. XP SP2 with all updates and I've yet to see such.

Did you do the usual shutdown, pull the AC cord, wait and retry?

Bob

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USB drives not recognized

by vipergts Aug 5, 2005 3:03AM PDT

thanks. When home machine lost recognition, I tried my office machine and another workstation at the office. Same thing. If I picked up a worm or virus or trojan at home, I gather that the USB drives would have been fried, and the work machines then would not
recognize either. Work machines automatically virus
scan, and tried McAfee at home - no luck - yet.
Any other software recommended - scan for virus etc., recover data.. ?? Bought "rescue Hard Drives and Recover Data" software by PCTOOLSPRO - hasn't arrived yet.
Thanks

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Did PCToolsPro work??

by mrficxit Sep 2, 2005 11:04PM PDT

vipergts,
I was just wondering if PCToolsPro worked to solve you problem? I have had a hard drive crash and it's not recognized when placed in a USB enclosure. Thought I would buy a boot repair disk but am kind of skeptical about whether it will work or not. Thanks

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