in need of desperate hardware help

[Godspeed64]

I call it a "crash"..
I'm sure most of us here call it a "crash" here..
This is what happens when you dont safely remove hardware..
Unfortunately, in your case, the connection got disrupted..

 

[van_halen]

this totally sucks. i kena for my usb thumbdrive before, i had to format the thumbdrive for it to work again but the data was totally inretrieveable.