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posted by barnaul on Aug 03, 2008


My IO Magic GigaBank 12 GB USB 2.0 hard drive is not recognized. I have rebooted, It does not show up under disk management. I use VISTA and it has worked before. The blue light is on but not recognized.
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Jerry Sisemore
jerrysisemore@earthlink.net

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Posted by ctnt on Nov 21, 2008

there is a clicking noise on mine like it is searching, but cannot find it. I too, just need to retrieve what is on it.

Posted by Guest on Aug 19, 2008

the unit is not recognized by any of my computers. I just need to retrieve data from it.

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posted on Aug 03, 2008
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latinmcgyver

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sounds like bad usb data channels on the drive the far left and far right are powers if im correct the 2 centers are data - and +


(i burned a usb memory stick once with a wrongly wired front usb plug)
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