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[Linkus]

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that I have lost a dear piece of technology last night.

My 512 MB Cruzer Mini has stopped working--the light stays on, but the comp refuses to recognize and read it; not even Autoplay or any kind of notification of new hardware comes up. So what was important on it? It held the most current version of NZTS and the updated Project Town, along with a large collection of game music and other things.

Although I did notice that there was points of the computer near freezing last night, and what I tried to do probably made it worse.

However, all is not lost. I had backed up some files and folders yesterday, but some did not make it. One such folder was called "Stash", which held most of my ZC stuff; it wasn't backed up, and I lost a few months' work. But that work can be saved quickly; I have images of most of the new additions, so it can become more like the recent save. I might be eligible for a new flash drive; I've heard that SanDisk is receiving similar reports, and they are giving out new ones in return.

If anyone knows how to recover the files in such a way, please let me know. I don't feel like calling/e-mailing Tech Support immediately.

[Alestance]

I better be careful! I have one of those too!

[ElLibertador]

I feel bad for you, but I don't think it is as bad as losing your 80 GB portable hard drive. Yes I lost it. It had a bunch of my music on it. All of my Fire Emblem Emulator stuff(Me love FE). A LOT of my ZC stuff(although I hadn't used it in a while. In total I had 30 GB used up already, and I lost all of it. It sucked.

[Exate]

That blows, big time.

Hope you get a new one. Try for a gig if you can afford it.
And save your most important ZC stuff in another location as well. =x

[Linkus]

Hope you get a new one. Try for a gig if you can afford it.
And save your most important ZC stuff in another location as well. =x

I had originally planned to get a gigabyte flash drive soon anyway--I was deleting things just to put some stuff in there anyways...

[Alestance]

oh, I'm reminded...

Sometimes, excessive use of the Cruzer Micro flash drive in one session leads to overheating. At least, this is the case with my experience.

[Questwizard]

Wow.. Must be an epidimic lately, because I think one of my 250Gb external drives is dying on me. It kept making clicking noises the other day when I was trying to write to it. Good thing I have a second external that was able to hold everything from the first one after deleting about 50gb of worthless crap. I dunno if its actually goin dead on me, but all tests seem to run fine on it, so i'm hoping for the best with it.

[Koopa]

All disks can fail - if anything is important to you, make a backup in at least 2 locations: for instance, your main HD and on a flash drive.

[Saffith]

I'm only aware of one free file recovery program that's worth using: PC Inspector File Recovery. Hopefully, that'll do it.

Edited by Saffith, 14 July 2007 - 03:27 PM.