On Jan 22, 2011, at 22:04, Ann Sanfedele 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. >
It's possible that the drive is OK, but the case that it's in has failed. Try having a geek friend transfer the drive to some other enclosure - it might still be usable. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.