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smailliw · 02-27-2008, 07:48 AM

usb sata drive not recognized
Have a 500gb sata usb drive that has been working fine. had it on and unplugged my printer cable form back of computer. error came up that the drive had not closed and or been written to and that data would be lost. shut down usb drive and now XP pro sp2 will not acknowledge. have a 200 gb ide drive that mounts fine. have celeron 3.2mhz cpu, abit sg-80 mobo w/512 ram. no info on microsoft for such a problem??
any ideas??? is there a HD recovery tool???

02-27-2008, 07:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
smailliw Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 4 OS: xp and 98	usb sata drive not recognized by xp usb sata drive not recognized Have a 500gb sata usb drive that has been working fine. had it on and unplugged my printer cable form back of computer. error came up that the drive had not closed and or been written to and that data would be lost. shut down usb drive and now XP pro sp2 will not acknowledge. have a 200 gb ide drive that mounts fine. have celeron 3.2mhz cpu, abit sg-80 mobo w/512 ram. no info on microsoft for such a problem?? any ideas??? is there a HD recovery tool???