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On Monday 31 October 2005 11:57, Adell Flourry, Jr. wrote: > Has anyone had success in recovering data from a USB external storage > backup drive? The utilities I have tried using (Norton or the built in > disk first aid) can not see the external drive at all. I am looking for > tips or suggestions. > > Thanks You aren't giving enough information here, but if you are having problems reading it because of going through a USB interface, you could always take the disk out and stuff it into a machine and see if you can't read it that way. This is likely an IDE disk? It should plug in as a slave OK. You'll probably have to set the disk jumper options but with luck data will be on the drive itself. --STeve Andre'