Thanks for your response. The drive mounts fine - initially. It gets a drive letter OK; I can open 'some' folders and view files OK; but when I try to COPY, I get file read errors often enough to be a royal PITA. There is over 200 MB of files and folders on that Cruzer. Easily more than 2,000 files in about 34 folders at root level.
Admin tools is not the answer - I've B.T.D.T. ... W.N. Doesn't matter whether I boot the USB COLD, WARM, or not at all between read errors ... the damned thing has read errors after it mounts - the read errors come and go, too. Sometimes I can copy an entire folder (including sub folders), but if I try the exact same thing a second time, I may only get half the directory or even none of it and then the entire devise goes 'inaccessible'. Sometimes, the mere act of opening a folder once immediately after the drive is mounted is enough to make the data unstable. Most of this drive is Excel and Mathcad files along with raw data files - a squirrelly bit anywhere cannot be tolerated. I took a look at 'BadCopy', but there's no way to tell if the 'recovered' files are corrupt or not. That's not good enough for me to open my wallet for. Their demo mode is akin to going to a dealership, watching a video and calling it a test drive before buying a car. _jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Analyst Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 5:47 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Crashing Cruzer Mini On 9 Jun 2005 at 23:08, nobozoz wrote: > Does anyone know how to get data off a crashing USB memory stick? > > The stick is sometimes recognized in WIN2K and when it is, I can see > the basic directory structure, but I am unable to copy the files to my > HDD due to a read error. "BadCopy Pro" claims it can copy the files off the stick: http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/ Also, your jump drive may not be mounting correctly because another device is using the same drive letter as it has used in the past. The tell-tail sign is supposed to be that the jump drive will be visible in "Unplug or Eject Hardware", but its file system will not visible in "My Computer". You have to go into "Admin Tools" under "Computer Management" and use "Storage" > "Disk Management" to re-assign the drive letter for the drive. Another solution you might want to try is to insert the USB drive while the computer is on, then reboot the machine and see if it's properly detected when it restarts. Vince
