Plugged in simpletech black cherry mini drive, worked one time

Go to the Simpletech website and download the Win 7 drivers from there. Although there may not be any. If you can't find any try the Vista drivers, these sometimes work.

http://www.extend-partition.com/resource/how-to-partition-a-hard-drive.html

Data recovery can be expensive the most expensive recovery labs may charge $2000. But for a 320GB drive you can get the data recovered for much less money.

This guy does data recovery remotely over the internet and works for donations http://FreeDataRecovery.us

Another good low cost option is http://300dollardatarecovery.com

i,m not a big fan of simple tech do to the fact that they sell cheap products and 9 times out of 10 they fail mechanically you can try and format to see if that works

Here is the manual that covers all of the SimpleTech Signature Mini External USB 2.0 Hard Drives. This is a pdf document, so you may need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader if you don't already have it installed.

Hard Drive Manual

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Dan

No driver is required to use the drive. Try another cable or another port on the computer. If you are using it bus-powered, try using a USB "Y" cable as some computers cannot provide enough power through one port. If you need more help, please call HitachiGST Tech Support M-F 8AM to 6PM PST at 1.888.426.5214 and a technician will be happy to help you.

It is easy, just conect it to the motherboard as a slave disc

Reformatting will be our last option and there are a number of steps that you can try to fix this.

• Try plugging it in on a different USB port
• Check the USB cable, try replacing it and see if it works
• USB ports on your computer makes use of power, so if you have multiple USB devices plugged in, the portable hard drive might not be receiving enough power. Try plugging it in without your other USB devices, except the mouse of course

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if you hear a constant clicking return the drive it is faulty.

becouse it is not there, u can only se shourtcuts. Try clicking on the files by right click, then propertys and u will see that it is shourtcut.