On 21/11/2007, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: > > > completely bricked - the indicator LED doesn't lit up and Windows says > > "USB device not recognized". Does anyone know if I can salvage the > > drive? > > Does it mount in Linux? If so you could use dd (with a block size of 512 as > its likely fat) to dump the contents onto your hard disk.
I am not worried about the drive contents, but the drive itself. If I can get Windows to recognize the drive so that I can reformat it, I'm going to be quite happy. It is not a filesystem corruption, but possibly a hardware failure within the drive. Binand
