The Lad Is Dead
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Okay, so my much-loved Iomega removable 120gb drive seems to have gotten corrupted pretty hardcore. I got my parent's computer back from the shop with a fresh install of Win2k (having had them troubleshoot the motherboard and sell us more RAM to replace a dead stick - part of the warranty), and I rip out all the old, mb-based and defective usb outlets and put in a new USB 2.0 pci card. I plugged it in, and it seemed to work fine for awhile, but I wanted to make sure that I had the optimum drivers installed, so I put the mini-disc in and tried to load the setup program, and almost immediately it freaked out.
It started telling me that I had unplugged my hardware without stopping the processes, and so I did the 'safely remove hardware thing' more times than anyone would think reasonable to banish this error message, all while performance has slowed to a crawl. I restart a few times, and each time it finds the drive but performance sucks, so I disconnect everything, uninstall all USB support from the Hardware Manager and reinstall it via the disc.
Then, when everything's detected again, I try to play some music off the drive, and it gives me an error message that I didn't write down, so I restart and it boots directly to chkdisk, where it finds a million unreadable files on the drive. I give up at 17%, restart, disconnect it, and cry. I cry for all the music I lost that I had no way to back up. And I cry for my friends' backups. And I cry and cry. And then I post here.
Do I have any hope, guys?
