Hi Check if the files are readable in linux.
I they are readable then we know we have a USB disk which has not been damaged. USB disks are very prone to have their partition table damaged if they are pulled out of a windows machine without being correctly unmounted. It could be a job for the testdisk program. You could try copying the files onto DVD and transferring them that way. Windows Professional is a very nice operating system. Sometimes it is possible to prevent USB drives from automounting as a protection against USB automounting viruses. This may be the case here. There is also a drive facility in computer services which could be set to limit the drives available. What does a USB stick do? If the Drive partition table has been irretrievably damaged. Do a Drive Copy Clone onto a new drive. Then run testdisk on the newdrive and hopefully the testdisk should get your partition table back. I don't use windows these days so I can barely remember how to do the more esoteric things although with a computer manual and a keyboard I can still get my way round windows. John Eayrs On Saturday 06 June 2009 18:52:24 Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: > I haven't used W*nd*ws for years, but I'm obliged to set up a machine for a > friend who steadfastly refuses to use anything else. > > I have taken the precaution, from time to time, of backing up files from > her Dell notebook (XP Home Edition) to a USB disc. She now has a new(er) > machine running XP Professional and I'm trying to restore the files from > that USB disc. > > The disc seems to automount, the drive is reported as being present and I > can unmount it successfully. But, where the hell are the files? The last > time I used w*nd*ws, an added disc drive would simply be allocated the next > drive letter in the sequence and would be accessible through that. That's > not happening, and I've tried three different drives so far, all of which > work perfectly well on my Debian machines. > > I discovered (somewhere) that the disc was mounted at 'location 0', > whatever that means, but I can't find any way of accessing it. > > I'm sorry to have to bother you Linux types with such a problem, but I'm > getting desperate: how do I access these files? > > Chris. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
