I have a usb external hard drive (Freecom 80GB). Ever since friday I have
been unable to access this drive. It doesn't show up in my computer whereas
previously it was the J drive. It doesn't show up on the disk managment
thing. In device manager It has USB mass storage device and in this it has
a yellow triangle with a black exclamation mark in it. When you right click
and select properties it has an error message which says 'This device
cannot start. (Code 10)'. I would appreciate any help in getting this drive
to work again or advice about how I could possibly get the data off it.

looks lake a failure of the USB driver have a look 'here '
(http://www.pchell.com/hardware/usbcode10.shtml)for a solution.

if you solve your problem please post back so that it may help others
in future


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I have a usb external hard drive (Freecom 80GB). Ever since friday I have
been unable to access this drive. It doesn't show up in my computer
whereas
previously it was the J drive. It doesn't show up on the disk managment
thing. In device manager It has USB mass storage device and in this it has
a yellow triangle with a black exclamation mark in it. When you right
click
and select properties it has an error message which says 'This device
cannot start. (Code 10)'. I would appreciate any help in getting this
drive
to work again or advice about how I could possibly get the data off it.

Try rolling back to a restore point before the friday that it failed.

Bob