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Good day... I have a Fujitsu MHV2080AT USB Device (External USB Hard drive). 80 GB. I lend it to a colleague at work before I leave for my annual leave (since it has some info he'll need during my abscence). Upon my return, he reported to me that he tried to load some media on my drive and since then, my fujitsu is sometimes detected by the PC (seen under my computer, and many times not)... However, it produces a continuous clicking sound, and alternative short green light and long red light. Excuse, my question, but I don't know, is your service free of charge, or how is the pricing made if it's otherwise? Thank you, Lou

  • special429 Apr 15, 2011

    The problem is not related to my computer detecting my Fujitsu USD drive, the problem is in the Fujitsu drive itself... It has bad sectors (as revealed by some powerful data recovery softwares). Please note that I have already tried the below, and they ALL FAILED:



    1) CHKDSK "F"/R (UNDER MS DOS)

    2) LOW LEVEL FORMAT (SO THAT TO RECOVER LATER THE DATA)

    3) FORMATING THROUGH PARAGON PARTITION MAGIC (SO THAT TO RECOVER LATER THE DATA)



    any other suggestions?



    Thanks

    Lou

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When you power up the computer press F8 key then enter in safe mode note down the drive letter like f: then go to command prompt and type "chkdsk f:" without "" where F: assume as your drive letter. then follow below. First make sure usb cable connected to harddrive is working fine. try it in different usb ports. Press windows key +R key so you can see run then type in run "devmgmt.msc" then press ok so you can see device manager uninstall all usb drivers then it automatic install usb drivers. then check. Also you need to change registry for that type in run "regedit" then press ok then you can see registry editor then locate below key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11 CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} And remove upper filter and lower filter.Then restart computer then check. Also locate the below key and make sure it's value is 3 not 4. HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\services\usbstor make sure start value is 3 not 4. Let me know if you need further assistance. Thanks for using FixYa

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