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If the buttons exist, there must be something out there that can do it but it's just stubborn to find on the many corners of the Internet Rather than looking through Google, have you tried any of the following? Softpedia The Free Country Download.com I've been using these websites for years and they host some great, free software. But before downloading something, you should check...

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Now we understand what you want. Then why not try an easier solution: just pull it out! Do you have any dentist friends?

What is stored on the external hard drive? An operating system or is it a plain file system?

The link in the previous post mentioned removing keys in the registry and I've done that at least twice without success, but I await your reply. Graeme

Ok, So I have an external hard drive with my backups on and I need to recover my photos, so I boot it up and look at the contents on the HDD, and all folders are working except for the folder named Photos in now not a folder but a system file with the grand total size of 0kb, so disaster, but im hoping the data is still there and its just a Table of Contents problem, any ideas at all, ...

Intermittent or variate faults are the most difficult to diagnose but the behaviour of working/not working and the stop error code suggests to me a failing hard drive (=bad disk). I've always avoided RAID setups but isn't this the kind of thing that RAID is designed to avoid? I think you should be able to test the drive in another machine - there is no harm in trying but I think you ought...