Q. I have a 250gb I/O Magic external drive that seems to have a damaged USB port. My computer recognizes the hardware when I plug in the USB but it rarely sees the drive letter. Sometimes it shows up in "my computer" but it doesn't stay there. It also freezes up my machine when it is connected but everything returns to normal once I unplug the USB cable. Any ideas?
A. You can still get the data off of the drive it just may be a little more complex because some drives run a linux backend that controls the partitioning information and makes recovery a little more difficult. First you need to determine if it is just the USB port that is damaged or if the HDD is physically failing. Visually inspect the port on the drive and see if it has bent pins or if it is loose. If the port is damaged you can usually take apart the drive enclosure and remove the drive and hook it up to the bus on your computer. After you have the drive hooked up you can run some data recovery programs like Recuva or you can go to ontrack.com and they have some trial software that will look and see if any of the data is recoverable. If the drive is physically failing you may have to send it off to a clean room to have the data recovered which can be really expensive. Some of the drives I have sent to recovery have been over $1000 to get the data back. If you determine that the drive is failing and is still in warranty, I would call the manufacturer of the drive to see if they offer any sort of discounted recovery services. Good luck!
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Q. I can use the restore cd that came with the laptop to get Vista working again but I would like to be able to do the data recovery myself to save a little money, but windows is not working.
A. Take the hard drive out of the laptop, and using a screwdriver, remove the special IDE connector that laptop manufacturers put on their laptops. If you're lucky, you might be able to swap it with a new laptop, but I doubt it. Windows XP has a funny way of not booting on other computers. In this case you might have to buy a laptop to desktop IDE cable and use a desktop computer to recover the data.
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Q. Its a WD 320 gb external hard drive and it stopped working after it fell down a few times. Now it says 'USB device not recognisable' on any system with any data cable. There's a lot of data in it that i need. I can't spend too much on recovering data, but is there a way in which I can atleast view the data the files in the hard drive and make a list atleast?
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