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Usb Drive doesnt work anymore

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Name: needhelp2k8
Date: April 3, 2008 at 05:22:16 Pacific
OS: linux
CPU/Ram: no idea
Product: no idea
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hi.. i have a usb drive which i used on university pc running linux. the problem is i went to transfer files between 2 pc's but i forgot to unmount the usb drive. now my usb drive does not even load or show up anywhere. ive tried in xp mode aswel and it is still not working.. is it not possible to get it to work again? :(



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Name: jefro
Date: April 3, 2008 at 14:13:36 Pacific
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Maybe. There are some programs that claim to recover data from damaged usb drives. You can try to mount it and or view it as raw. Could copy the data maybe with something like cat /dev/sdd or something to that effect maybe.

I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.


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