Harddrive format prob + webcome issue

by blitzz • 12 Apr 2010, 00:14 • Journals
Hey smart boys

First, i got a USB webcam from a friend but i dont know what version of cam, just logitech is written on it and the pc is not recognizing it as a cam, what can i do?

second, someone used my harddrive and now my pc cant recognize it, its something about linux format and i need to format it with Fat32 or smth, but i dont want to lose all the stuff i had in there, what can i do about it? any way to recover the data?


thanks in advance :)
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deactivated1014 12 Apr 2010, 01:18
have u tried plugging the cam into all the ports ?
one may be faulty
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blitzz 12 Apr 2010, 01:20
my pc can recognize the device but maybe im missing a driver or smth, i just dont know anything about this old camera
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Thomm 12 Apr 2010, 01:35
While you are at it, search drivers for my creative p1100 (or what was it), there aren´t any because of win7 + old cam.

Or is there some global ones, tried few, no worky-porky.
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ScarZy 12 Apr 2010, 02:10
what?

I need more information on the hdd problem.
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blitzz 12 Apr 2010, 02:13
the pc is not recognizing him as an harddrive, i cant use him, but he do recognize him, i checked it out and i think that the harddrive was on a linux PC so its all messed up.. i can format him with fat32 to get him work again with Windows OS but i dont want to lose my files on him, i want to save them but i dont know how.. or what to do? maybe trying to plug it to a linux harddrive will help
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unblind 12 Apr 2010, 02:51
well if its not working cause its 'linux format' then it has been formatted and your data is already at risk of being gone...

but if it has been formatted you could probably get the data back using recovery tools !

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
testdisk is powerful and free to use but no fucking way am i going to teach you how to use it : D follow the steps in the guide
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ScarZy 12 Apr 2010, 18:38
what distro of linux was he using?
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blitzz 12 Apr 2010, 23:04
no idea, cant get this info
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cl4ym4n 12 Apr 2010, 03:15
Get a linux live-cd, open the usb-hdd with it, copy all files to your internal fat32/ntfs hdd, format the usb-hdd and copy the stuff back.
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