Piney, Thanks so much for your answer - I was stubbornly booting to FreeDos. After reading your reply, I booted to Parted Magic and - poof! All problems solved! Parted Magic sees all my USB drives just fine and I've been salvaging my data since Sunday!!!! Thanks SO much again!!!!! P.S.: for anyone e...

Dear all, I'm booting UBCD from the CD (on my VAIO laptop that has a sick HDD with Vista on it). Everything looks good, I can even see the files from the sick HDD, but since I'd like to salvage some of them to a USB stick, I'm trying to enable USB support with no luck. No matter which of the 3 optio...