Hi Noah, I wonder if you have tried a good Linux live boot? I will be bringing one to the meeting tonight, and I have found this a good way to mount and see data (from Solyd Live). Live boot can seem more straightforward than plugging USB into an installed Operating System.
Mel On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 13:38 -0600, Noah Tellin wrote: > The day after I find out that Plume Creator cannot read the project > files that I copied over to the backup drive before a fresh install of > Linux Mint 17 (losing much of the draft of a novel), the drive itself > seems to be toast. There were some file system errors that were > corrected when I had it connected to a Windows 7 OS on my older > laptop, but I was using it after that and got much data restored, > though not all of it. Now, it seems stuck while trying to read, I get > frequent beeping and it does not appear in the list of devices in > Gparted. The disk manager built in to Mint used to show the partition > and volume info, but now only shows some details of the hardware, with > mount options. > > I have another external drive somewhere, but fear that it may not have > all the content that I had put on the 'new' storage device. > > Other than waiting for a response from Verbatim and digging around for > that other hard disk, any suggestions for getting the device to be > recognized? > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
