Damn. My thumb drive, with some fairly important stuff, seems to have taken a nose dive.
Get this: My Lexar JumpDrive Secure is what I keep my monthly spreadsheets on. Well, I go to plug it in at work today, and the computer recognizes it, but I can’t get to it through the “My Computer” file explorer-thing. It doesn’t work at the office, it doesn’t work at home. :eek:
The only thing I can think of, is that after I defragged it last night, some of the software on the drive itself got mixed up.
Anyone know what I can possibly do to get access to the files?
Tripler
Aw man, I may be seriously, seriously screwed.
I oughtta add: I’m running Windows XP '02, and haven’t had a single problem up to this day.
The thumb drive itself is partitioned: one is “public”, and the other is “secure”. When you plug it in, an AutoRun program pops up and asks you for a password to access the “secure” side.
Just to be clear: are EITHER of the partitions (public or secure) showing up? If you can get the public one up, you might be OK – just run the JDSecure program from anywhere (I’m pretty sure you can download it from Lexar) – it doesn’t have to be run from the drive itself.
Even if you can’t get the public partition up, you might be able to do this, I don’t know the particulars of how JDSecure locates it’s compressed partition.
Alternatively, try plugging the drive into a Mac (which also supports JDSecure), and see if you can read it from there. Since the drivers on the two OSes are so different, it may be that one can read it when the other can’t.
(Also, at the risk of a borderline commercial statement, I’m just finishing a flash-backup project that would have helped you out here, and you’d probably be a good beta tester if you contacted me off-list.)
