Recovering data from portable hard drive

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   Does anyone have any ideas?  My portable hard drive would occasionally not be recognized in my Vista laptop, sometimes it would say "USB device has malfunctioned."  

Now it wont be recognized at all?  I tried it in an XP computer and still no luck.  I'll try it on my DS computer when it gets here and maybe i'll have some luck.

It's a seagate 500 gb external.  I'll check their website soon but I know there is a lot of smart people here, thanks

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Solo Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 395	Quote Reply Topic: Recovering data from portable hard drive Posted: 07 Nov 2007 at 6:01pm
	Does anyone have any ideas? My portable hard drive would occasionally not be recognized in my Vista laptop, sometimes it would say "USB device has malfunctioned." Now it wont be recognized at all? I tried it in an XP computer and still no luck. I'll try it on my DS computer when it gets here and maybe i'll have some luck. It's a seagate 500 gb external. I'll check their website soon but I know there is a lot of smart people here, thanks

ed1371 Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 350	Quote Reply Posted: 07 Nov 2007 at 6:36pm
	I am not one of the smart ppl... but I would open it up, take out the hard drive, and try to connect it via regular sata/ide connections.
	Silverstone TJ-10 INTEL 4790K 16 gigs ddr3 ssd and such liquid cooled cpu 2080 RTX Super

Solo Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 395	Quote Reply Posted: 07 Nov 2007 at 10:05pm
	Ed thanks for the reply, but that means nothing to me :D Could you explain that to someone who has not been around computers for a while? Thanks. I am assuming you mean DONT use the USB connector it has, but take it out of its eccentric completely useless case its in and connect with a different cable.. do I need something to do that ? like an extra cable?

Recovering data from portable hard drive

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