On 5/10/2013 3:56 AM, Rock wrote: > It gave a message that it was unrecognized or corrupted. > So I googled, & found a Microsoft Support page saying to run: > chkdsk /F E: > So I ran that, and now the USB drive was recognized. > But it "appeared" empty. Never run chkdsk if you are not 100% sure! there are good softwares out-there which do better job then recuva. I dont remeber the name of it but you can try to look up and find these softwares. I had a linux issue and I bought this kind of software for ext2/3 which saved my life. Eliezer