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USB drive not initialized in Vista

Had an external USB drive decide to fall out on me last week. This is one that’s been a bit problematic in the past. It was originally bought when a 250gb USB was a really big drive and had to be replaced after a couple of months when it started clicking and stopped working. Next time it failed was out of warranty though so I took it apart.

So I’ve pretty much given up on putting it back online and just want to get the data off, and apart it goes. Plugged it in to a USB adapter to make sure it was still readable and it worked, and it did. Moved to to my MacBook since it and the computer the data needed to be moved to are both wireless N, and mistakenly unplugged without ejecting first.

Plugging it back in to my main computer and it no longer read. Drive showed as uninitialized in MMC.

On a whim plugged it back in to the Mac which read it fine, ejected correctly, and plugged it back in to my Vista machine and it’s happy again. Now I just need to actually copy everything before the drive decides to really die.

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