[RESOLVED] Fix MBR USB Drive

[Nightwalker83]

I have a USB drive that suddenly won't be recognized again.
Whenever I plug it into a pc Windows says the drive isn't formatted.
Linux doesn't even recognize it.

Who is the manufacturer of the USB? This sounds like a problem I am having with my Western Digital USB drive.

Edit:

The problem I have was that the system detected that drive was installed/connected to the computer. However, I could not view the files on the drive whenever I opened "my computer" or Windows Explorer the usb drive would not appear even though it was plugged-in.

Found this Backup and Restore Master Boot Record (MBR) of Hard Disk Drive (HDD) I will give it a try if I find my usb drive.

Failing that you could try creating a usb MBR.

or

http://www.techsupportforum.com/hard...usb-drive.html

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk.

Here are the steps I followed to recover the situation:

1) Download the Test Disk utility

2) Connected the USB Drive to my laptop. (windows kindly offered to reformat the drive as the previous operation had failed... I obviously decilned :-)

3) Ran the TestDisk program and select Analyse disk... takes about 15minutes

4) The analysis results indicated the data was intact but the MBR (aka Master Boot Record) had been deleted.

The TestDisk message went something like "the extrapolated boot record does not match the current boot record"

5) Selected "Rebuild MBR"

6) Selected "Write Boot"

7) Selected "list" (which lists files and folders)