> >>  Even so, you would think there would have to be some kind of *cause*
> >> for this. The broken drive has been tried on another machine and found
> >> to not work there either. However, the person made a comment about a
> >> second USB drive having recently failed in exactly the same way. This
> >> makes me rather suspicious...
> >>
> >
> > She might be removing[1] them without removing[2] them.
> >
> > [1] Physically
> > [2] By the eject -command
>
> But I thought the default option on XP was to allow that. Even if she had
> physically removed it the next time it was plugged in it would complain
> and ask if you wanted to run chkdsk.



use frequently, takes up to 15 minutes to save a file to a USB drive! And then
more than often the file is unreadable afterwards.


file onto the hard drive first, and then use a file manager to copy it to the
USB drive.

I think the problem with data recovery is that things have gotten too
sophisticated, especially with USB.

Back in the days I used a data recovery software which was non OS specific, you
simply burnt in onto a CD (or was it a floppy!) and it would boot up your PC
and show -everything- that was written on any disk, including deleted data and
ghost traces of data which had been moved physically. All you had to do was to
specify the disk you wanted to recover from and a healthy disk you wanted to
recover it to. I used it once to save data from a badly crashed hard drive with
around 75% success. All I had to do was to borrow (or buy) an extra hard drive
and copy to it.

The problem now is, when booting up on such an non OS specific software, to my

programs would still probably do the trick. So, unless you want to pay somebody
a lot of money to recover your data, using USB drives (small sticks or bigger
drives) for backups may not be a great idea.


card reader more than once made the stick unreadable and then the system told me
it was unformatted and I lost every single photo! By merely inserting the stick
everything was gone. There was nothing I could do about it. Very annoying!

Hildur

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