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[kitefullofkoi]

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My external pocket drive which I use for all my design work is malfunctioning for some reason. ;A; I have no idea what's wrong with it, but it's not booting properly, and my laptop wants to format it.
I need this drive guys. It has all of my stock, brushes, textures, fonts, actions, SAI work, and every picture I have ever taken stored on it. I cannot afford to lose this drive.

It runs on a USB 2.0 cable, and when I plug it in to start it, the drive spins then starts this stuttered clicking noise, and I get a notification that the USB device is malfunctioning.

Anyone have any hints/clues/tips for me? ;n;


edit: Just plugged it into the desktop machine, and it ran fine. It's my USB drives on my laptop. Drives as in plural. All of them are having issues.
Why is this such a big deal? I run four on a regular basis (school, design, writing, back-up). As I have said, all of my design stuff lives on my pocket drive. In addition, all of my writing stuff lives on an external flashdrive I take with me literally everywhere. It has everything I've written, my snippets and ramblings, all my plots and research material. And all my RP stuff from a variety of sites lives on there for on-the-go-rp. Then I have my school drive with all my classwork, etc.
Without my drives, I can't move my latest camera images off, or work on an intensive design commission, or even log any of my writing properly.

I-I can't do what I do without my drives... Now I need to know what I need to do about this. Dammit.

Comments

[senmut]

Back up all you can to Drop Box or whatever method you have. Do a repair with your windows disk if you have it. It MIGHT reset your USB ports. Otherwise, try update drivers for the USB ports.

[arirashkae]

Also, in addition to running backups, it might be wise to replace the flash drives. After a while, they do die.

[kitefullofkoi]

They run fine in the desktop system though, which is how we were able to tell that it was the ports in my laptop, and not the drive itself (which was my first fear). I've already replaced my writing drive once (or has it been twice? XD) because of age and wear.

[dickgrayson]

I leaned this weekend how much computers can hate me so I have no idea how to fix. I am sure you will find a way to have it working soon however. If I find anyeone how knews anything I will be sure and ask about this too.

[kitefullofkoi]

If we need to, my laptop is still under warranty and we can send it off to get a new motherboard installed. I'm hoping we won't have to do that and I can reset the drivers somehow. *sigh*

Thanks for the thought! :)

[dickgrayson]

That sounds like it will take a lot fo time and you will lose info. I hope your restart words and you lost nothing. If nothing else use the argument in the icon. XD?

Welcome. ^^

[kitefullofkoi]

*snickers uncontrollably* I love that icon! ♥

[dickgrayson]

XD Makes two! <3