> I have a 500GB USB external hard drive on my home PC that I use to store
> pretty much everything.  All of our pictures, financial documents,
> mp3s, code repositories, everything.  I have the hard drive partitioned
> into 2 equal parts, and they are set up as the "F" and "G" drives on the
> PC.  Last week, my 9 month old grabbed the cable and pulled the hard
> drive off of the desk.  When I plugged the hard drive back in, I could
> no longer access any of the data on the drives.  Windows is saying that
> the drives need to be formatted.

Gerald's suggestion has worked for me (more than once). Usually, the
thing that gets screwed up first is the enclosure and its connector.

Once you do that, you should consider ... more robust alternatives to
using a single drive.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
http://training.figleaf.com/

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