Ouch! Oh, that is not fun. We had a drive crash that had all our financial data on it a while back. A local computer guy was able to recover things but I'm not sure exactly how he did it. I do know he had to crack the hard drive case and plug it into his computer with some sort of adapter. Once he convinced the drive to run he was able to use some recovery software on it. Maybe there is someone close to you that specializes in hardware issues?
On 1/22/11 10:04 PM, "Ann Sanfedele" <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > My 500 gig external harddrive crashed tonight... guess where all my > recent digital photos are? > > This happened after I loaded PEF's onto it a couple of hours ago... a > couple of weird things happned... the PEntax Lab thing said there was a > loading error. > > I know its not the USB port because I was able to attach my 80 gig > external to it and use it. > > WHen I plug in the drive it says USB DEVICE NOT RECOGNIZED...and says > the divice has malfunctioned. > > aarrrgggh! > > Never had a drive crash on me before ... > > I connected it to the old puter to see if I could revive it but no, > nothing... > > WHen I goto the trouble shooting page it tells me I should try and > reconnect it (duh) and if that doesnt work "REPLACE THE DEVICE" > > the device is a Seagate free agent 500 gig drive I got as a present in > 2007. All my photos from the last two years are on there > The C drive was getting crowded most everything I need is on the > external drive. > > I sthis going to cost me a fortune to save it? is it possible there is > just a driver I need to reload? > > Hugs along with info would be much appreciated > > ann sad > > > > > > > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
