Related to usbdrive

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Rick Bowers wrote:
> Just a thought -- but you show in an earlier email you mounted the usb
> drive as "fvat" -- This should be "vfat" Did you make a typing mistake
> during the mount, or just while explaining what you did? Also, I believe
> NTFS (vfat) is supported for read-only, so I could see why the drive
> shows up as 100% full. ~Rick
>
> Hi First of all thank you very much to you and Net Llama for the
> suggestions and advice to my problem and of courese *Llama* has spent
> lots of time for this problem.... --- Michael Hipp <Michael at Hipp.com>
> wrote:
> > Swapana Ghosh wrote:
> > > Thanks ... That means there is NO WAY we can retrive the data ? IF there
> is
> > any
> > > way please let me know... I have to inform to my boss...At this moment i
>
> > can't
> > > think more than this..
> >
> > Idea #1: I hate to suggest this, but it might be worth a try. Plug it
> > into a Windows box and see if the FS looks any different. You haven't
> > much to lose at this point.
> >
> > Idea #2: Remove the hard drive (physically) from the USB container and
> > plug it directly into the IDE port on another computer. It's not
> > impossible that this could be a USB problem.
> >
> > Idea #3: There are various commercial utilities that attempt file
> > recovery on such things.
> Thank you very much for the suggessions - i will ofcourse try whatever you
> and
> Net Llama suggested/adviced to me..
> Best regards.
> -Swapna
>
>
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