usb drive reconnect after power interruption

[John Abreau]

I have a VMware guest OS on a usb2 external drive, and a short time ago 
the office lost power for a couple minutes. When power came back on, my 
laptop saw the usb drive as a brand new drive, and won't mount it under 
its old id. Meanwhile, the system is holding on to the old id so it can 
eventually flush its I/O to disk.

Is there any way I can tell the system that the usb drive I'm plugging 
in is the same one it needs to flush the data to? Or is that data just 
lost forever at this point?


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