[Nitecat]

Beavis,

The computer tech at my electronic repair place has tried everything and says he cannot retrieve the data from the hard drive. Originally we had hoped that the hard drive inside the case would be fine. They now believe it is also damaged. They say that the USB port got pushed in and damaged some things inside (capitor, transistor.... I think). They opened the case, removed the hard drive and tried a number of things to get it to work, but no luck. They said for the USB port to be damaged like this, the drive was most likely dropped. I know for a fact that it has never been dropped or mishandled. I am very puzzled about how it was damaged, but guess even if I could figure that out, it doesn't help me now. I had tried a couple times to back up this drive that had all my KMA files, but was not successful in getting them all backed up. The drive would always stop part way through during the backup, which I now believe was due to the drive file system being FAT32 instead of NTSF. I did get 38 gigs backed up out of 53, so I am at the point now of trying to recover (reload) what I am missing. Believe me, once I manage to get the 53 gigs loaded again, I will have several drives backing this up. I will never put off getting that accomplished again.

Norm has been kind enough to offer advice. I don't want to proceed with anything until I know for sure what I am doing. I'm in a bad enough spot now without making it any worse. So that's where things are.

If you know of any other way to try and get the data from the damaged drive, please give me detailed instructions. I'll try anything. Thanks. Nitecat