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PC eye · 08-23-2006, 10:10 PM

I am under the impression that the one mistake made was the removal of these drives while the laptop was running even in standby mode. Even with the low current seen on a usb bus data not hardware was probably damaged or now missing that would allow Windows to readily access either drive. If you don't see a fast fix the use of a live Linux distro for file copying may be the way to save files from the drives there.

08-23-2006, 10:10 PM	#4 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 21,091	I am under the impression that the one mistake made was the removal of these drives while the laptop was running even in standby mode. Even with the low current seen on a usb bus data not hardware was probably damaged or now missing that would allow Windows to readily access either drive. If you don't see a fast fix the use of a live Linux distro for file copying may be the way to save files from the drives there.