The move has not been made yet. It is possible that something may rise its head and make me reconsider. But, I'm fairly sure my wife and I are going to get rid of our Iphones and get Droid powered phones.

One may think it is about the network. AT&T has surely received a lot of attention on call quality since they got the Iphone. However, it has little to do with that. Here in the Tampa area, AT&T has been fine. Sure, it drops calls occasionally, but I've never had a cell phone company that didn't drop calls. To a degree, all cell phone companies suck. :)

My decision has more to do with Google integration and overall openness. Both of these points are strikes against the Iphone. The Apple Iphone has always been a controlled environment. I'm OK with that as long as the environment is very capable - and it is. But, I am NOT OK with that when that controlled environment is being controlled for no reason other than petty politics.

The competition between Apple and Google is pretty fierce, and Apple is run primarily at the beck and call of a man who, I believe, can be rather arrogant and emotional - Steve Jobs. Honestly, I can think of no other reason why Apple would simply not allow an app for Google Voice on the Iphone.

Simply put - I want full integration with

Use the chkdisk command from the run box in windows. You will have only lost data that is being written to the disk at the time the plug was pulled. You have more than likely upset the boot file that hold the information as to where the files are stored. The chkdisk solution has already been mentioned, it will check your boot sector and file allocation tables and repair these so the files can be read again. Unless there is a mechanical reason for the disk failure then using file recovery software will be a waste of time and money. There is plenty of information on the web as to how to use chkdisk as it's a Microsoft utility and is included in your operating system from DOS and up.

With the external HD plugged in, find it in the My Computer window, usually listed under removable storage devices. Right click on the drive icon and in the pop-up menu click on "properties". A window about the drive's properties should open. Click on the "Tools" tab at the top of the window, and then click on the "error-checking" button. Another small window will open. Check both the boxes in the window and click on "start".

Windows will now run the Disc check utility on the drive and should fix any file errors found. Once complete, try and see if you can access it now.

If this didn't work, there are applications available that can scan and recover lost or accidentally deleted data on hard drives an external devices. One I can recommend is "System Mechanic".

I've run into a super-crisis! While creating a bootable Ubuntu USB (for my uni course), the creator needed the USB to be formatted. I had my flash disk as well as my family's external hard drive (used for storing all our digital photos, etc.) both plugged in. After accidentally clicking on the wrong drive, I panicked and stupidly pulled the USB cord connecting the external hard drive. Now whenever I plug in the hard drive into any computer, the various OSes want to format the hard drive. Is there any way I can recover the many precious files on the hard drive