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USB Key not being recognized, URGENT HELP NEEDED

YaYaYaYa Decent.Registered User regular
edited September 2008 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
I have a 1 gig DSE USB Key that has a lot of important school work that I absolutely need to get at tonight, but none of the computers in my house will even recognize that a device has been plugged in. I have absolutely no idea what to do.

Specs are

Windows XP
P4 CPU 3.20 GHZ
1 Gig RAM

PLEASE HELP

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    okay update

    I uninstalled the drivers and replugged the device, and it recognized that something had been plugged in, but I still couldn't get to it and Windows said that a problem occurred during the installation

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  • Red_CascadeRed_Cascade Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    If you right click "My Computer" and select "Manage", then in the window that loads go to "Disk Management" which should show all attached storage devices (Hard drives, CD drives, USB etc). Does the USB Key show in there?

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    It does not.

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  • ArcticMonkeyArcticMonkey Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    If it won't work in windows you could try a linux live cd.
    Link to live cd download here (700MBish): http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
    You will also need another USB something to put the files on since a live cd will not allow you to write to a NTFS hd.

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  • TrentusTrentus Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ArcticMonkey wrote: »
    If it won't work in windows you could try a linux live cd.
    Link to live cd download here (700MBish): http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
    You will also need another USB something to put the files on since a live cd will not allow you to write to a NTFS hd.

    Or you could grab Slax for ~190MB (if you have a small data cap or something).

    Anyway, given that it isn't working in any of your machines, I'd say it's probably stuffed. Send your teacher (or whatever) and email telling them what happened, and ask for a small extension. I don't think there's much else you can do.

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  • Red_CascadeRed_Cascade Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    If the key isn't showing on any of the computers nor in Disk Management then I would say the drive itself is dead. You can try a Live CD, but if multiple copies of windows can't work it then I doubt you will get a different result with Linux. Not the answer you want I know.

    I suppose you could try taking the key to a friends / library / school where they have a different version of Windows and see if that works. May be quicker that d-loading a Live CD.

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    yeah it seems like it's given up the ghost

    luckily I discovered I had more backups than I thought and a couple of the things had the most recent versions on hard copy, so I just updated them

    huge pain in the ass, and I'm now unable to work any more because I wore myself out so much, but still

    thanks for the help anyway guys

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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    You said it at one point it reconised some device. If you go back into the device manager where is the key listed and what is it listed under?

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