Error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O deviceerror

[vunet]

My thumb drive (or Samsung MP3 player) stores some important data I
can no longer retrieve. Windows OS detects the plugged-in drive but
when I click on assigned letter, the error is:

E: is not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an
I/O device error

It happened after I plugged it into somebody's MAC, created a new
folder and copied some content in there. However, I never had problems
using the thumb drive with my own MAC.

Anyway, I do not want to format it and Fix Errors did not work. What
should I do now? Please recommend. I need to somehow get that data.

Thanks

PS Somebody recommended me to force mount my drive on a Linux machine
with Samba installed. I do not have Linux available yet. So in a
meantime maybe there is another fix?

 

[Malke]

vunet wrote:

(snip multipost)

Asked and answered in *detail* in the other newsgroup to which you posted.
Please don't multipost; it makes more work for everyone and will get you
*less* help, not more. See this for why:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting

If you have forgotten where you posted or can't find your post, use Google
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Malke