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JeffJenkins on Sept 10, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

You can force detach using the console tools. I had this problem too

shykes on Sept 10, 2010 [–]

I can remember at least one case where force-detach didn't work either. In that case there is absolutely nothing you can do to access your data.

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