Mass storage device USB are most recognized

Hello! I use Cavalry 1 TB drive external HARD for a year now.

It was working fine until what a week ago it stopped working all of a sudden.

I can see the lights are on on the device, I can hear the disc rotation, but my computer will not recognize it.

I tried it on 5 different computers, and I'm sure that's not for lack of USB.

When I try to give him a letter via using the tool administration and management of the computer, it says

the disk2: is unknown, not initialized, when I try to boot, I get an error message saying Virtual Disk Manager: incorrect function.

I tried to reinstall the drives USB and all the stuff that I met while I was looking for forums.

Can someone help me with this problem please?

At this point, I think it's rather physical HARD drive is defective... but guarantees that the data losses are not covered by the company if I'm afraid to use the solution from the manufacturer. If I can't make it work, it's good, but at least I need to know how to get

the backup data.

Thank you.

Try this 1:

Restore point:

http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/using-Windows-Vista-system-restore/

Do Safe Mode system restore, if it is impossible to do in Normal Mode.

Try typing F8 at startup and in the list of Boot selections, select Mode safe using ARROW top to go there > and then press ENTER.

Try a restore of the system once, to choose a Restore Point prior to your problem...

Click Start > programs > Accessories > system tools > system restore > choose another time > next > etc.

http://www.windowsvistauserguide.com/system_restore.htm

Read the above for a very good graph shows how backward more than 5 days in the System Restore Points by checking the correct box.

If the Hd has failed, only we can advise you on the normal methods to retrieve data, and involving the system recognizing the HD in a box.

Or using Knoppix as a possible solution:

Knoppix Live CD to recover your data:

http://www.Knopper.NET/Knoppix/index-en.html

Download/save the file Knoppix Live CD ISO above.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

Download the Vista software from the link above.

After installing above ISO burning software, right click on the Knoppix ISO file > copy the Image to a CD.

Knoppix is not installed on your PC; use only the resources of your PC, RAM, graphics etc.

Change the boot order in YOUR computer/laptop to the CD/DVD Drive 1st in the boot order.

Plug a Flash Drive/Memory Stick, BOOT with the Live CD, and you should be able to read the hard drive.

When the desktop loads, you will see at least two drive hard icons on the desktop (one for your hard drive) and one for the USB key.

Click on the icons of hard drive to open and to understand which drive is which.

Click the icon for the USB drive and click on "Actions > Change the read/write mode" so you can write to disk (it is read-only by default for security reasons).

Now to find the files you want to back up, just drag and drop them on the USB. When you're done, shut down the system and remove the USB key.

See you soon.

Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

Tags: Windows

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