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General Software Discussion / Re: Taking ownership of files ... confused, irritated & discombobulated
« on: October 23, 2011, 12:58 AM »This was - emphasis on the was - not an OS drive, just a USB external storage drive.
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So I dismantled the drive housing --barney (October 19, 2011, 06:54 PM)
Stop! ...God I'm retarded...
It's a USB Drive ... So if the USB controller goes poof (and they tend to) ... It can/will make the drive (which is actually perfectly fine) appear to be torched. I just went through this a few months back with a clients 1TB backup drive. In the externel USB case it appeared to be for all the world completely, unreadably, fried. However.... Out of the case connected directly to a computer ... It worked perfectly. I'm still using it.
Take another run at it now that it's out ... You might get lucky.-Stoic Joker (October 19, 2011, 09:30 PM)
Ha! Ha!
You have made me recall an incident while I was a teenager... :-* back to the time before Win95, I was using floppy drive. I remember I have angrily thrown into my dustbin a dozen or more floppy disks and only find out later it was my floppy drive that went out of alignment... it simply can't read any disk...