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Hey all,
A friend of mine recently had her USB drive come up with an error. Whenever it is accessed it throws up an error "this drive needs to be formated". So we tried running chkdsk and even tried running Restoration (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html) which i've tried on my father's hard drive before with excellent results. This time it just throws up a "unable to reconize" error.
When I try to format it, we can only format a 8mb partition (out of 512mb) and even then it says "no" to that. I used the built in Windows XP. Chkdsk cannot see it, says it is in RAW format (which i assume means there IS no partition).
My next step is to try some specilised software made for flash drive recovery. There are important files on there that the owner would very much like back (however not important enough to justify large spending of money). A freeware option would be fantastic.
Thank you
A friend of mine recently had her USB drive come up with an error. Whenever it is accessed it throws up an error "this drive needs to be formated". So we tried running chkdsk and even tried running Restoration (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html) which i've tried on my father's hard drive before with excellent results. This time it just throws up a "unable to reconize" error.
When I try to format it, we can only format a 8mb partition (out of 512mb) and even then it says "no" to that. I used the built in Windows XP. Chkdsk cannot see it, says it is in RAW format (which i assume means there IS no partition).
My next step is to try some specilised software made for flash drive recovery. There are important files on there that the owner would very much like back (however not important enough to justify large spending of money). A freeware option would be fantastic.
Thank you
