my pc is not recognizing my external media....was working fine on friday, but now it's not. i've seen some threads for file recovery of deleted files, but i'm not sure they'd be useful in this case. i don't know of any real and reliable recovery software products. can you recommend something? my question is how do i run software on a drive that is not being recognize by my pc? - thanks

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