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Hi. A thumbdrive of mine developed an error, reported by Vista, where it
sometimes offers to scan and fix, but then reports it can't access the
drive. At other times Vista doesn't detect the drive at all. In XP it
also doesn't detect the drive when inserted, although it sometimes makes
the 'USB connected' sound.

I have tried numerous different USB ports on two machines. Other USB
drives work ok.

Does any one know of any diagnostic software that can do more to access
and save the data? I am not too bothered about saving the drive, so
reformatting it is of less interest.

Thanks

anthonyberet

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:17:52 +0000, anthonyberet wrote:

>Hi. A thumbdrive of mine developed an error, reported by Vista, where it
>sometimes offers to scan and fix, but then reports it can't access the

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>Does any one know of any diagnostic software that can do more to access

None of the stuff mentioned in 24HSHD before worked?
http://groups.google.com/group/24hou...elpdesk/topics
try looking there first, so see what was tried / what worked.

32 results for usb flash recover
30 results for usb flash data recovery
2 results for usb data recovery
47 results for flash data recovery

nor anything found using
www.google.com
Web Results 1 - 10 of about 467,000 for
usb data recovery
.. (0.25 seconds)

www.usbdriverecovery.org/
www.recoverdatatools.com/usb-data-recovery.html
www.pcstats.com/artvnl.cfm?articleID=1869
http://www.diskdoctors.net/fat-data-.../software.html
lots of others.

>and save the data? I am not too bothered about saving the drive, so
>reformatting it is of less interest.

Me

anthonyberet wrote:

>Does any one know of any diagnostic software that can do more to access
>and save the data? I am not too bothered about saving the drive, so
>reformatting it is of less interest.

This one gets good reviews (free):
http://www.recuva.com/

I have not had an opportunity to test/try it. If you try it I'd be interested
in your results.

anthonyberet wrote:
> Hi. A thumbdrive of mine developed an error, reported by Vista, where it
> sometimes offers to scan and fix, but then reports it can't access the
> drive. At other times Vista doesn't detect the drive at all. In XP it
> also doesn't detect the drive when inserted, although it sometimes makes
> the 'USB connected' sound.
>
> I have tried numerous different USB ports on two machines. Other USB
> drives work ok.
>
> Does any one know of any diagnostic software that can do more to access
> and save the data? I am not too bothered about saving the drive, so
> reformatting it is of less interest.
>

I think it's what I used before. http://www.undelete-plus.com/

It worked installed on a failing hard drive finding all selected file
formats? that were deleted. Fairly fast also.

Let us know if you use it or what works

On Mar 25, 1:17*pm, anthonyberet <nos...@me.invalid> wrote:
> Hi. A thumbdrive of mine developed an error, reported by Vista, where it
> sometimes offers to scan and fix, but then reports it can't access the
> drive. At other times Vista doesn't detect the drive at all. In XP it
> also doesn't detect the drive when inserted, although it sometimes makes
> the 'USB connected' sound.
>
> I have tried numerous different USB ports on two machines. Other USB
> drives work ok.
>
> Does any one know of any diagnostic software that can do more to access
> and save the data? I am not too bothered about saving the drive, so
> reformatting it is of less interest.
>
> Thanks
>
> anthonyberet

www.pcrecovery.com