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From: John Smith on 10 Apr 2010 13:09


"Mike" <dubya54(a)XXXXyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "John Smith" <JohnSmith(a)nospam.com> wrote in message
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>> Advice appreciated.
>> In brief - 500GB Maxtor External Hard drive plugged into Windows 7 pc -
>> can read what's on the drive ok. When plugged into an XP pc however can't
>> access it. How to be able to access it on an xp pc?
>>
>> More info..it belongs to a mate of mine. Its in my possession now,
>> however, to try to sort it.
>> A clue as to how it got like it is...friend uses it with his xp pc. A few
>> weeks ago he said it presented with do you want to format the drive, he
>> said yes (don't ask!)..it wirred away for a couple hours he said then
>> stopped. He switched it on and couldn't access anything and assumed he'd
>> wiped the lot. He now can't access it from his xp pc. It seems he has
>> lost much of the content but still some untouched, and, as I say
>> accessible via my w7 pc but not my xp pc.
>> When I plug it into my xp pc an icon is shown in My Computer but when
>> clicking to open it, it displays...drive E is not formatted, do you want
>> to format it now?..
>> It also shows in Disc Management as E partition basic healthy capacity
>> 127gb, free space 117gb, then graphically as disc 1 basic on-line and as
>> E is split into three bits - 104gb unallocated, 811gb! healthy and 259gb
>> healthy (unknown partition).
>>snip Thanks in advance.
>
> Well, recover whatever data you want to your win7 computer.
>
> To recover data on the formatted partition(s), try PC Inspector, a free
> prog that once worked for me when commercial file recovery programs
> failed. Try this first, before doing anything else-- just connect the
> drive and run PC inspector and see if it finds the USB drive and see if it
> finds any data on the formatted partition. If it does, recover what you
> can, saving it of course somewhere other than the usb drive.
> It is here: http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?po=1&language=1
>
> If it doesn't find the drive, try removing drive letters EACH partition on
> the device in XP's Disk Management. Then give them new letters then
> rescan the drive. See if that helps.
>
> BTW which XP - pro or home?
>
> There is an arcane reason why XP will fail to see a USB device.
> Here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925196 .
>
> Good luck.
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Failed :-(
pcinspector looked and looked but couldn't detect anything...not
even the files that we know are there (viewable via w7).
changed the drive letter E to F but still no go.
May just click yes when it says do you want to format the drive.
Thanks for your help.

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