memory stick has lost all data
in [Windows XP]
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From: Andrew E. on 26 Feb 2010 23:26 You almost had it,in diskmgmt.msc,L.click on the drive,go to actions, all,locate & select "make active"... "lenny109" wrote: > > I (my daughter) have a USB Pen drive with work on it. Today when it plugs > into the computer it gives the message that the drive isn't formatted do you > want to format it. Well obviously not at the moment but I also can't recover > any files. I have tried a number of programs including DDR Pen Drive > Recovery and Ontrack Easy Recovery but neither of them find any files at > all. If I look on Windows Disk Management it can see the drive (K) and size > and also says that it is healthy but again I can't access it. > > What else can I try to recover the files? > > Thanks in advance for any help on this one. > > > . >
From: SC Tom on 27 Feb 2010 08:03 Don't believe you can do that with a pen drive. -- SC Tom "Andrew E." <eckrichco(a)msn.com> wrote in message news:D00F503F-9ABC-4321-9DBB-BB57A03C1DAC(a)microsoft.com... > You almost had it,in diskmgmt.msc,L.click on the drive,go to actions, > all,locate & select "make active"... > > "lenny109" wrote: > >> >> I (my daughter) have a USB Pen drive with work on it. Today when it plugs >> into the computer it gives the message that the drive isn't formatted do >> you >> want to format it. Well obviously not at the moment but I also can't >> recover >> any files. I have tried a number of programs including DDR Pen Drive >> Recovery and Ontrack Easy Recovery but neither of them find any files at >> all. If I look on Windows Disk Management it can see the drive (K) and >> size >> and also says that it is healthy but again I can't access it. >> >> What else can I try to recover the files? >> >> Thanks in advance for any help on this one. >> >> >> . >>
From: Peter Foldes on 27 Feb 2010 10:31 Andrew E. is the resident idiot here who continually gives wrong and dangerous answers -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "SC Tom" <sc(a)tom.net> wrote in message news:%23Xf3G16tKHA.6124(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Don't believe you can do that with a pen drive. > -- > SC Tom > > "Andrew E." <eckrichco(a)msn.com> wrote in message > news:D00F503F-9ABC-4321-9DBB-BB57A03C1DAC(a)microsoft.com... >> You almost had it,in diskmgmt.msc,L.click on the drive,go to actions, >> all,locate & select "make active"... >> >> "lenny109" wrote: >> >>> >>> I (my daughter) have a USB Pen drive with work on it. Today when it plugs >>> into the computer it gives the message that the drive isn't formatted do you >>> want to format it. Well obviously not at the moment but I also can't recover >>> any files. I have tried a number of programs including DDR Pen Drive >>> Recovery and Ontrack Easy Recovery but neither of them find any files at >>> all. If I look on Windows Disk Management it can see the drive (K) and size >>> and also says that it is healthy but again I can't access it. >>> >>> What else can I try to recover the files? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any help on this one. >>> >>> >>> . >>> >
From: Terry R. on 27 Feb 2010 11:37 On 2/26/2010 4:14 PM On a whim, lenny109 pounded out on the keyboard > I (my daughter) have a USB Pen drive with work on it. Today when it plugs > into the computer it gives the message that the drive isn't formatted do you > want to format it. Well obviously not at the moment but I also can't recover > any files. I have tried a number of programs including DDR Pen Drive > Recovery and Ontrack Easy Recovery but neither of them find any files at > all. If I look on Windows Disk Management it can see the drive (K) and size > and also says that it is healthy but again I can't access it. > > What else can I try to recover the files? > > Thanks in advance for any help on this one. > > And to think people actually store backups on these. And they argue with me about their reliability... Terry R. -- Anti-spam measures are included in my email address. Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.
From: philo on 27 Feb 2010 11:53
lenny109 wrote: > I (my daughter) have a USB Pen drive with work on it. Today when it plugs > into the computer it gives the message that the drive isn't formatted do you > want to format it. Well obviously not at the moment but I also can't recover > any files. I have tried a number of programs including DDR Pen Drive > Recovery and Ontrack Easy Recovery but neither of them find any files at > all. If I look on Windows Disk Management it can see the drive (K) and size > and also says that it is healthy but again I can't access it. > > What else can I try to recover the files? > > Thanks in advance for any help on this one. > > The drive is probably bad and probably unrecoverable. I assume she deleted the files from the harddrive...and if so you may have better luck running a data recovery program there. Of course...the more the drive was used...the less likely it is for the files to be recovered. If this is the case....stop using the machine at once and slave the drive to another machine (or put it in a USB enclosure) then run the recovery program from the other machine |