My External Hard Drive unplugged while writing, and now XP won't recognize it
Submitted by John on Fri, 11/20/2009 - 01:00
- XP
- and now XP won't recognize it
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- My External Hard Drive unplugged while writing
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- Windows XP
- won
- writing
First thing to do is get the drive out of the housing and mountit internally in your PC - see if BIOS finds it there, windows still may not, but if Bios sees it then you will have a chance for recovery.
