USB HD no longer recognized!

[Curious George]

Hi George,

I'm back in business! What a relief!
Congratulations

It turned out to be a loose connection. Same as last time. Same floppy
drive connector. This time it was just loose. The last time it had come
off altogether.
Problem is that I have two CD-ROMs that vibrate very strongly.
Eventually they loosen neighbouring cables.

What kind of machine is this. I don't think I've ever seen a machine
that couldn't POST because the floppy was unpowered/insufficiently
powered.

Now it's back to my disk recovery problem.

Here's a post from a similar thread that's active now:




Have a look on Google for this very popular, but it seems almost
irresolvable problem.

You could try a powered USB hub is about the best hope I can give you.

Shouldn't make a difference if the drive has it's own power supply.

So it seems that even in WinXP USB drives are a problem.

Yes & no. It's very possible to have either great success or great
headaches.

 

[google3luo359]

HI george,

I have an ASUS board from 1997.
The ribbon cable from the floppy comes loose, not its power cable.

My USB drive doesn't have its own power supply.

Ric

 

[Arno Wagner]

Yes you are correct, they weren't high importance files.
[...]

In another folder on the CD is a file called 242975usa8.exe which I did
run and install but it didn't make any difference.
Perhaps I should run it after fdisking but before placing data on the
HD?

In one folder is a file called USBMonit.exe but when I run it no
monitor is set up to show when I can safely unplug the HD.
In one info file is the only clue to the company:
[Strings]
MCS="Myson-Century"
MfgName="Myson-Century"
USB\VID_04CF&PID_8810.DeviceDesc="Myson-Century CS8810 USB Mass Storage
Device"
USB\VID_04CF&PID_8811.DeviceDesc="Myson-Century CS8811 USB Mass Storage
Device"
USB\VID_04CF&PID_8813.DeviceDesc="Myson-Century CS8813 USB Mass Storage
Device"
USB\VID_04CF&PID_8818.DeviceDesc="Myson-Century CS8818 USB Mass Storage
Device"
USB\VID_04CF&PID_0800.DeviceDesc="Myson-Century MTP800 USB Mass Storage
Device"
MCUSBMS\DISK.DeviceDesc="USB Mass Storage Device"

And it doesn't help that there is no obvious setup file. There are two
setup.exe files in two different folders.
They look like the same file.

There are just too many products out there that were made cheaper than
possible. Unfortunately paying a reasonable price does not ensure
good quality. Sharing experiences with others (ad done here) is
the only way to identify good products, it seems. So thamks for
posting your experiences.

Arno

 

[google3luo359]

You're welcome Arno.

I still haven't given up hope about retrieving my data from the HD.
One data recovery package found all the files. Unfortunately when the
files were transferred to my c: drive none could be opened. It's as if
one critical byte in each file is missing.

Ric

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

They could not have been important if you have only this one copy,
now can they?

Sotty, but I think you just learned a valuable lesson.

That you are an idiot?

If you can spend the money, try a data recovery outfit. Has a
reasonable chance of bringing back some of your data.

My guess as to the actual problem is that Win98 never saw more than
the small amount of space and that in you last session you managed
to fill that up and windows started writing an the beginning of the
disk, overwriting all the meta-information, file-allocation table and
main directory. If I remember correctly, this is a known problem,
also with large disk sizes and XP (without service pack).

Utterly Clueless.

This also means that some of your data is likely irretrivably lost.

I think

About living dangerously ....