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Topic: External usb hard drive, Can't find it

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Posted: July 12 2007,18:51

Spoke too soon. It won't mount the Dazzle. It gives the same info error for it as for my Mad Dog. That's a bummer. I won't be able to use it to look at my pictures.
Well the WD drive works. I was able to see the files. I have a bunch of different files some mp3's some programs that have .exe in them some rar etc. Some are folders with different things in them... like rar doc etc. When I right click on one of them, I get a lot of things to choose from. I would like to be able to move them to a different portable drive..... like my Mad Dog.What do I need to be able to that?

I still need to get it to see my Mad Dog. It says Error: mount: relocation error: mount: undefind symbol: blkid_known_fstype. What does that mean and how do I get it to see the drive?

I thought that I should add that I also have a WD 500 gbz usb external drive that works too. This will be the drive that I want to transfer all the files from my Mad Dog drive to.
I found that I have to have the drives hook up to the laptop before I boot for it to see them. I can't just swap them in and out like in xp.
Thanks, Ron

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Posted: July 12 2007,19:29

That error means it has a filesystem that's not supported. Either that's true and it has a weird filesystem, or you didn't "unplug it safely" in Windows causing the filesystem description to get corrupted..

To move files around hook two drives up, mount both, open emelfm and browse the other side to the other drive and the other for the other. Then select all on one side and click move and they'll move to the other side..

What filesystem was on your Mad Dog?

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Posted: July 12 2007,20:17

For my usb drives, I just manually mount them via terminal.. (I don't think the mount app gets updated?)

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Posted: July 12 2007,20:48

Windows XP ntfs. Now I am worried. I have to go and checked if it is still working.... and yes I am sure that is what happen. I am having all kinds of trouble with xp on this laptop. I am about to do a fresh install.... again for the..................time.:p

I HATE XP!!!!! :angry:

Yes ...... another hard drive bites the dust.

Is there anyway to recover them??? I now have lost over 1000 gbz
because of this. I am going to have a drink

Now I know why it would not see it...... lucky me.

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Posted: July 13 2007,03:46

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I am having all kinds of trouble with xp on this laptop. I am about to do a fresh install.... again for the..................time.:p.... I HATE XP!!!!

I don't know what kind of problems you're having with XP, but this issue doesn't sound like it's XP's fault. Certainly doesn't sound like something requiring a reinstall. Take a deep breath and learn how to use XP's features before you insure that you do lose your data (reinstallation ISN'T a good starting point because it means you will lose data). There's no reason to reinstall it if you've set system restore points like you're supposed to. If you have a restore point, use it. It works for the rest of us who use XP (correctly anyway).
http://www.microsoft.com/windows....re.mspx
http://www.theeldergeek.com/system_restore.htm
http://searchwarp.com/swa78730.htm

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